W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.W. Somerset Maugham
Quotes to Explore
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My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad.
Larry Wilmore -
Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
Jackie Chan -
Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
Laraine Day -
In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
Iain Banks -
Life is a school of probability.
Walter Bagehot -
I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
Eddie Marsan
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Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
Lady Gregory -
While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
Park Shin-hye -
I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
Patrick deWitt -
I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
Damian Lewis -
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde -
I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
Halle Berry
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
Isaac Barrow -
We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
Zac Brown Band -
I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
Questlove -
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
Barbara Kruger -
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis
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About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'
Carla Gallo -
We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
Kate Millett -
Train our children to love God.
Daniel Harvey Hill -
I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
Randy Pausch -
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
W. Somerset Maugham