W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.
Young Jeezy -
I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.
Bas Rutten -
What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
Ted Dekker -
No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
Lady Bird Johnson -
While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.
Nazanin Boniadi -
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
Karen Thompson Walker
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When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.
Jackie Chan -
Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.
Victoria Moran -
The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland -
A philosopher is someone who says, 'We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!'
Daniel Dennett -
Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet - whom Plato banned from his Republic - may rise up to save us all.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Edward Gibbon
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You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Sir, I just think that's it's fucking brilliant that you somehow managed to tie Chuck Norris, Chewbacca the Wookie, and Jesus Christ together.
Kevin Smith -
One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it's worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow's leaders.
Danny Meyer -
It would be nice to create something that's healing rather than slightly creepy and darkly judgmental!
Jenny Lewis -
I think there is a larger responsibility towards actors to make television what it should be in India. I would love to take on the challenge. Had it been for me, I would focus on good content.
Barun Sobti -
One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.
Joel Edgerton
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I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.
Art Donovan -
I would love to do something with Bill Withers just because I think he's next-level, just so, so class!
Lewis Capaldi -
Before I was 12 years old, I had no interest in music; I was just into football. Then I heard Don McLean's 'Vincent' come on at the end of an episode of 'The Simpsons.' You know when you hear something and you don't understand why you like it, you just do? That's how I felt. I just thought, 'I want to be able to write songs like that.'
Jake Bugg -
I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
Ranbir Kapoor -
I want to say things, even if they are unexpected or weird. If they aren’t usually said in a pop song, I want to say them anyway.
Cyn -
You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
W. Somerset Maugham