Marcel Proust Quotes
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.
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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
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The function of the lawyer is to preserve a sceptical relativism in a society hell-bent for absolutes. The worse the society, the more law there will be. In Hell there will be nothing but law and due process will be meticulously observed.
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Stilicidi casus lapidem cavat.
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Matter and all else that is in the physical world have been reduced to a shadowy symbolism.
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
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Trust is built with consistency.
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President Obama knows that wars are not to be entered into lightly; he knows that overseas conflicts don't only do damage in the land in which they are fought, but in the land of those who fight them, as well.
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I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.
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I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.
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'Jack,you have debauched my sloth.'
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Trans folk, especially of color, should not be obligated to help cis folk play catch-up on our experiences. The effort can detract from our work to protect and liberate ourselves.
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The woman is so hard Upon the woman.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
