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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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal. So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history. When I did finally share the problems I was having, I was shocked - not only by the support that was given to me, but also by the incredible amount of people who admitted they struggled with the same thing.
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Whenever we love or care for anything in our lives we're willing to respond with care and with compassion, but if something that we love or someone we love is threatened, we're also willing to respond with courage.
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If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.
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I opposed Clinton's budget deal in 1997 because he brought in $115 billion cut in Medicare that created greater pressure for providers not to participate.
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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.
