W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people, her power to inspire and direct their enthusiasms and energies, her chance for molding their conceptions of life, were amazing and unparalleled by any other force.
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I watch schlock telly. Like the 'Kardashians.' I love it. It's my guilty pleasure.
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The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.
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I went home and went to Mustang, in the mountains between Nepal and China, and was so inspired by the landscape and the rich culture and heritage. I loved the textures, the draping, the palette. Everything was so beautiful. This little kingdom wasn't open to the world until 1991.
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I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary experience involves middle-sized objects in space and time, that fundamental reality must be essentially like that.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
