W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

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• It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

  J. August Richards
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• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
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• I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
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• You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Heart
  • Art
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• I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Time
  • Pretty
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• Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Country
  • Question

• Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Movie
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  • Me

• I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
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• I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Father
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• The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.

  

  Jack Kemp
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  • Process

• I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
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• Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Powerful
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• I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
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• What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • World
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• Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

  

  Antonio Lobo Antunes
  • Death
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  • Cold

• I have to stand up for myself... I learned something that I could and should stand up for myself, and he learned something, which was she will stand up for herself.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
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• Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • War
  • Strong
  • Door

• It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Effort
  • Teacher

• My wife says 90% of sex occurs between the ears. But I need a girl who can blow more just my mind.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Mind
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• Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Mind
  • Comedy