W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.
Quotes to Explore
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age.
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Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.
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If historical experience could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
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It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.
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Our desire to conserve wildlife for our children and our children's children forces us to bring out into the open conservation's secret question : Does God give a prize for the maximum number of human beings? Put another way, which shall we bequeath to our grandchildren : human life with nature, or human life without nature?
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There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.
