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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For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.
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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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I feel like it's my responsibility and my obligation to stand up and to say that which I believe to be the truth.
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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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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
