W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
He found himself now in the agreeable situation of being able to do what was best for others and at the same time what was convenient to himself.W. Somerset Maugham
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
Maelle Gavet -
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
Barry Mann -
I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
Natsuo Kirino -
I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
Jack Lew -
Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
Natalie Dormer -
Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
Lalla Ward
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney -
Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
Patrick deWitt -
What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
Pat Buchanan -
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac -
Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
Yanis Varoufakis -
Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
Victoria Legrand Beach House
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When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.
Verite -
We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
Adam Osborne -
I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
Hailey Gates -
I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
Zack Greinke -
Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
Ma Jian -
In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
Oscar Isaac -
I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.
Gary Johnson -
Read everything. Write all the time. And if you can do anything else that gives you equal pleasure and allows you to sleep soundly at night, do that instead. The writing life is an odd one, to say the least.
Alice McDermott -
Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
Hans Christian Andersen -
My career is a burden, but I can't just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not, I'm just making a fool of myself for the hundredth time, and that wasn't part of the plan, initially. I'd be happier not having any kind of public presence whatsoever and just hiding behind the sleeves of the CD.
Ariel Pink -
He found himself now in the agreeable situation of being able to do what was best for others and at the same time what was convenient to himself.
W. Somerset Maugham