Marcel Proust Quotes
Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.
Quotes to Explore
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I'm a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there's not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
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I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
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To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.
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After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how incredibly talented the Three Stooges really were after re-watching old episodes. They still stand up!
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A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
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It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
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You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
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We are removing the most important cultural roadblock to accepting the role of God as creator.
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I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.
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They had nothing to say to each other. A five-year age gap between siblings is like a garden that needs constant attention. Even three months apart allows the weeds to grow up between you.
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People who think too much before they act don't act too much.
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...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.
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You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since-on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with.
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We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.
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Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.
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I've got bills to pay like everyone else. I'm a high-earner but I don't see myself as rich. I know in some people's eyes I probably am, but I will always have to work. My son Matt asked me if we were rich the other day and I told him that in my view, being rich is not having to get up to go to work. I can't see myself ever being in that position.
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After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and traditions, just as they would probably be astonished at ours.
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Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.
