W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
Camille Paglia
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I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.
Vidya Balan
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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I'm not the girl next door.
Carine Roitfeld
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If you're in a major city, there's a 25-year cycle. In Vegas, it's probably 10 or 15 years, except for those landmark places like Spago or Nobu. In Vegas, you have to reinvent yourself once in a while.
Daniel Boulud
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Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.
Camille Paglia
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I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.
Pamela Anderson
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I'm a very boring person.
Sam Heughan
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As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
Otto Wallach
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I keep saying, the older I get, the younger my audience gets. Because 'Wicked' and 'Rent' and 'Glee,' each one was a young audience, so it's a great thing to have, so then you know that as they get older and have kids, they'll maybe still buy tickets to my shows when I'm 80 and in Vegas!
Idina Menzel
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I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better living for him in the future. A second principle is that no one can guess the future loss of business from a dissatisfied customer...
W. Edwards Deming
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If there's any secret to my success, it's that I just hire people who are smarter and more talented than I am.
Kurt Sutter
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I don't want to be known in my life for what I do from 5 to 9 in the mornings.
Matt Lauer
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Everybody gathered at my Aunt Hannah's house, and we sat around and talked, ate, drank and told lies. That's what people do, and I just sat there and listened.
Andre Holland
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You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.
Les Claypool
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Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.
Rita Ora
