Marcel Proust Quotes
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Fidel Castro -
If you want to be happy, make others happy!
Dada Vaswani -
I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
Baz Luhrmann -
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.
Garry Hynes -
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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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.
Lawyer -
Stilicidi casus lapidem cavat.
Lucretius -
Matter and all else that is in the physical world have been reduced to a shadowy symbolism.
Arthur Eddington -
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
Laurence Sterne -
Trust is built with consistency.
Lincoln Chafee -
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.
Lincoln Chafee
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I wish sometimes people wouldn't underestimate me. But it's a fleeting wish. It's not where I live.
Mary Steenburgen -
I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.
Joan Chen -
I happen to love coconut, particularly for that sweet and crunchy texture it adds to any dish.
Marcus Samuelsson -
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.
Kyra Sedgwick -
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Kenneth Tynan
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The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
Earl Nightingale -
Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.
Chuck Klosterman -
The unlucky hand dealt to clear and precise writers is that people assume they are superficial and so do not go to any trouble inreading them: and the lucky hand dealt to unclear ones is that the reader does go to some trouble and then attributes the pleasure he experiences in his own zeal to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
Marcel Proust