W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
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At 99 and after a long stay in a nursing home, the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold was hardly a surprise - though she may have been just a little annoyed to quit a few months short of 100.
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I think anybody who uses email in the center of our life needs encryption.
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Hip-hop certainly is in sync with the youth, and every day that passes, I grow less youthful, as much as I have tried to hold onto it.
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Most salespeople would like to think of themselves as being rock stars, but they don't display the talent to match their definition.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.
