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While I was shooting for Kahaani …I got a call from the director of Coffee House – Gurbir Singh. He asked me whether I was ready to take up a role in his film. Not many people are aware that Gurbirji was the person who offered me my first role in television – for a show called Dastoor. Those days I was a greenhorn, but still he had faith in my capabilities and offered me the role. Since the offer of Coffee House came from him, I definitely had to give it a good thought. Plus, many times it has happened in my life – and perhaps in everyone's life – while talking to someone about a project, an instinct tells you that it is something good for you. There may apparently be no rhyme or reason, but you do sense an inner voice telling you that it will be good. I got the same feeling with this film. Plus my saying yes also meant me saying thank you to him for restoring his faith in me. – Sakshi Tanwar	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves. – Lydia Child	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or our country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share. – Virginia Woolf	added by anonymous 10 years ago
While I was shooting for Kahaani …I got a call from the director of Coffee House – Gurbir Singh. He asked me whether I was ready to take up a role in his film. Not many people are aware that Gurbirji was the person who offered me my first role in television – for a show called Dastoor. Those days I was a greenhorn, but still he had faith in my capabilities and offered me the role. Since the offer of Coffee House came from him, I definitely had to give it a good thought. Plus, many times it has happened in my life – and perhaps in everyone's life – while talking to someone about a project, an instinct tells you that it is something good for you. There may apparently be no rhyme or reason, but you do sense an inner voice telling you that it will be good. I got the same feeling with this film. Plus my saying yes also meant me saying thank you to him for restoring his faith in me. – Sakshi Tanwar	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish. – Eugène Ionesco	added by anonymous 10 years ago
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life. – Malcolm Muggeridge	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules. – Joan Didion	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. – Edmund Burke	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one. – Diana, Princess of Wales	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.... – C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. – Friedrich Nietzsche	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The ideal conditionWould be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;But since we are all likely to go astray,The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. – Sophocles, Antigone	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct. – Cicero	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. – Socrates, In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Morality is herd instinct in the individual. – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 116	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct. – Denis Leary, No Cure for Cancer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing. – Thomas Jefferson	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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