Marcel Proust Quotes
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
Hanna Rosin
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Walter Lippmann
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
Usher
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
L. Ron Hubbard
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It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.
Patricia Marx
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I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
Victoria Moran
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There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.
Dalai Lama
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All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.
Mike Wilson
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I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's.
Ian MacKaye
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I studied harmony and composition in a very spontaneous manner.
Alejo Carpentier
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It turns out, all the studies show you invest a little time in another person's life, often a younger person, and all of us have that capacity to do it, just an hour a week, an hour every couple of weeks, and you can make a tremendous difference in a kid's life over their lifetime.
John Prendergast
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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust
