W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.
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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
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I never did drama in high school or anything like that. I just kind of fell into it after college, and I pursued it on my own.
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The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.
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When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
