W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
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One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
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With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck.
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As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are paid equally for equal work.
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Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you didn't want to be left in the dressing room with him. It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me.
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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
