Vikram Chatwal Quotes
My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can play and then go for it.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disappoints nobody. For charity is perfect only when full.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.
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A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.
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The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his faith, are indications, if not of positive malevolence, at least of a suspicious and ruthless insecurity, which is characteristic more of a tyrant than of a wholly powerful and benevolent deity.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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It's kind of hard for you to be doing huge things and still be knowing what's happening on the street level.
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My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
