Marcel Proust Quotes
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
Quentin Tarantino -
This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
S. C. Gwynne -
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
Taylor Swift -
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
Ibrahim Babangida -
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
Jacob Epstein -
The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.
Said Nursi
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Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.
Cameron Russell -
It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
Walter Russell Mead -
If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
La Monte Young -
I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
Van Morrison -
Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
Rafael Nadal -
I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.
Larry Brown
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
Ban Ki-moon -
Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
Gavin Newsom -
Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.
Fernando Flores -
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Samuel Gompers -
I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
Pam Grier -
In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.
Karen DeCrow
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I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
Alexander McQueen -
Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
Flo Rida -
What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.
Elizabeth Smart -
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.
Karl Marlantes -
Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals.
Marcel Proust