Marcel Proust Quotes
To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.
Quotes to Explore
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
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India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.
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I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.
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My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
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Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union.
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I'm a visual writer, so it's fitting that my first brush with 'Red Queen' was an image. I had the idea of a teenage girl in an arena, a bit like 'Gladiator,' and she's about to be executed. But instead of being killed, she kills her executioner with lightning.
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My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.
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I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
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I believe in people.
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The immigrant experience had a profound effect on me. It taught me the importance of hard work and the value of being entrepreneurial.
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I'm a cigar aficionado.
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What I remember about the old days is that when we had real good football teams, they had a knack for beating us.
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The right hon. Gentleman is the first of the new party who has expressed his great grief by his actions-who has retired into what may be called his political Cave of Adullam-and he has called about him every one that was in distress and every one that was discontented.
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To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.
