Marcel Proust Quotes
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Religion is something we don't talk about, and it is used by uneducated people as a weapon to divide us as opposed to connect with each other.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
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Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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My private life stays private.
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It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.
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I'm a travel enthusiast.
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I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.
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He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.
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To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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When I have a bad show, I can't wait until I can get back on stage to forget about it.
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I have always liked to get my pictures taken, and I like taking care of my looks. But, I am not one to use beauty products and treatments.
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Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
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We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable.
