W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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Recently I read that half the world or more has read 'The Lord of The Rings,' but then I found out that something like 75 per cent of the world knows the 'Tintin' books.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Shopping in Thailand is super cheap and generally high quality. Bangkok is also safe. If you see anybody wearing camouflage holding a machete, don't be scared. They sell coconuts.
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
