W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.
Quotes to Explore
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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After 'Chandni Bar' there was a shutdown of such bars in Mumbai. After 'Page 3' people started avoiding such events. 'Traffic Signal' exposed the money flow through the mafia. I'm not apologetic about the brutal truth in my films. Almost 70% of my films are based on reality, and 30% I fictionalize or change to suit my film.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
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Every adverse development across the world affects the rest of the world in some way.
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My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.
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No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.
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Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.
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It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
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Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively.
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Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.
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If people of colour do not exercise their democratic right to vote, they will remain an invisible, voiceless, and largely ignored part of the electorate.
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But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what's expected of me, and I've always been able to do more than you necessarily hear with every band I've ever played in.
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Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.
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I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.
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If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs.
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It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.
