W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

W. Somerset Maugham

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• In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Black
  • Intellectual
  • Clear

• Everybody thinks they deserve something.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Something
  • Deserve
  • Thinks

• If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Success
  • Stopped
  • Boston

• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Moderation
  • Excess

• If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Win

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Empathy
  • Planet

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Kind
  • Happen
  • Lottery

• If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Love
  • Love Yourself

• 'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Think
  • inspirational
  • Sky

• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Past
  • Peace
  • Dad

• Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Think
  • Well
  • Did

• If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Future
  • Me
  • Journalism

• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Women
  • Health
  • Decisions

• I'm not saying everybody has a social responsibility of what art they create, but art should be open-ended. I just feel there's a lack of consciousness and understanding of impact and reach. Just maybe, for a second, just think of the effect you could have with a lyric.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • Art
  • Responsibility
  • Understanding

• 'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.

  

  Eli Roth
  • Up
  • Done
  • Movie

• Being on set is the thing I love the most, and a lot of the things that come alongside acting and entertainment are the things I despise, to be quite honest.

  

  Cole Sprouse

• In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • People
  • Simple
  • Language

• In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.

  

  Ann Turner
  • People
  • America
  • Girl

• Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People