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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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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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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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.
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The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience - one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.
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Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
