W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
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When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
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My real baby is renewable energy. I feel like whoever starts to crack this nut is going to have a pretty clear shot at the White House. It's a $2 trillion business that America's being left out of.
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Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.
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In art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
