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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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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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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I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.
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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 a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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The death of compromise has become a threat to our nation as we confront crucial issues such as the debt ceiling and that most basic of legislative responsibilities: a federal budget. At stake is the very meaning of what had once seemed unshakable: 'the full faith and credit' of the U.S. government.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.
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There are very few things in my life that I can't have if I want them. So when I see something that I can't have, immediately I'm obsessed by it.
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Death is in truth an illness from which we recover.
