Marcel Proust Quotes
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
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I don't see myself ever selling Republic or AutoNation.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
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Wherever you go in the world, Batman is known. Everyone has an idea of what he should be like.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.
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If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.
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Back then it was a very realistic thing for me. My own thing was, you know, wake up at 5 in the afternoon, it's dark out, hang out, maybe take a shower, then start drinking, start smoking pot, go out with friends, get wasted.
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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.
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...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute-though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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There are only two loves, whence originate all our wishes and all our actions: the love of God which does all for God and which God rewards and the love of ourselves and of the world, which does not refer to God what should be referred to him and which for that very reason becomes evil.
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...only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
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Hell, that's why they make erasers.
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I always wanted to beat my own path.
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The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. Abortion is treason against the family and deserves the death penalty. Adultery is treason to the family; adulterers should be put to death. Homosexuality is treason to the family, and it too, is worthy of death.
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This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.
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Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover.
