W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
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The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle mass, and joints worn out from overuse during a lifetime of bipedal locomotion. It might have worked great for prehistoric humans, but it wreaks havoc on our knees and hips.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age group on my Facebook page is 25- to 35-year-old women.
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Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
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What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.
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It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.
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I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.
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I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.
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No one is safe from religious ideas and confessional phenomena. Neither you nor I. We can fall victim to them when we least expect it. It's like Mao flu, or being struck by lightning. You're utterly helpless. Exposed. As I see it today, any relapse is utterly out of the question. But I can't say it's out of the question tomorrow.
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We have always focused on degrees only. Now is the time to focus on skill development that will bring employment to our youth. If we have to compete with China then we have to focus on three things-skill, scale and speed. We need better skill, greater scale and faster speed.
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I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
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Whatever its imagined virtues, faith is the enemy of open and honest inquiry. Remaining open to the powers of conversation - to new evidence and better arguments - is not only essential for rationality. It is essential for love.
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Histories of ages past Unenlightened shadows cast. Down through all eternity The crying of humanity. 'Tis then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man Comes singing songs of love...
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I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.
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I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
