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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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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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I usually have a 13-hour workday. But at times, we get lucky when we wind up in 8 or 10 hours.
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When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.
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I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows. I love you because we are all born in the same place, at the same source, which keeps us provided with a constant supply of water.
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It may not matter to anybody now, but when you go out there and perform on the field, that's what matters.
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I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.
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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.
