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.W. Somerset Maugham
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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.
Earl Scruggs -
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso -
I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
Jackson Rathbone -
I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
Garry Shandling -
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.
Ira Sachs -
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
Larry David -
There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
Barbara Palvin -
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.
Gabrielle Giffords -
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.
Sam Graves -
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.
Yanis Varoufakis
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
Katee Sackhoff -
If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
Sam Altman -
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John -
Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.
Randeep Hooda -
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
Talcott Parsons -
I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
The importance to the nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized, in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war.
David F. Houston -
It takes years to realize the multiple benefits of science; without adequate, sustained funding for research, the careers of many bright, young scientists may come to a screeching halt.
Carol W. Greider -
You want to kill me, don't you? And here I thought you and your friends were so righteous. You are just as capable of evil as anyone. Perhaps more so. Yet you believe your brand of evil is justified, so long as it serves your own misguided purposes." --Saint Dane
D. J. MacHale -
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.
W. Somerset Maugham