W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
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In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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There's room for role models who make mistakes.
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I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I would say almost 60 percent of working with Kanye - let's say 53 percent of working with Kanye - is speeches.
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My mom was the strongest woman I know.
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Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.
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Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.
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You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else.
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We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
