W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
Quotes to Explore
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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Making music is fantastic.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.
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Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.
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I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.
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We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
