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.
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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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We have to use all of America's strengths to build a world with more partners and fewer adversaries, more shared responsibility and fewer conflicts, more good jobs and less poverty, more broadly based prosperity with less damage to our environment.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.
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Prescott Bush was himself a president of the U. S. Golf Association at one time - 1935 - before he became a U.S. senator from the state of Connecticut.
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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.
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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.
