Marcel Proust Quotes
Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.
Quotes to Explore
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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You've got to try to guard, make an effort to defend to the best of your ability. You have to rebound the ball, which was an area that was so critical. And they wanted you to play smart and have fun. I've kind of tried to let our people understand those are the most important things that I could possibly tell them.
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A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might be crazy. But I realize that I'm not going to harm anyone, and the only place that I live is within my own universe, really - so it's O.K.
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I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
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If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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To measure your needs by that which is projected via mass media is a mistake that has no mercy. The average person views a minimum of one thousand advertisements a day. To say "no" to the most outrageous commercials is an act of responsibility that needs to be taught early and often.
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I mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant it to be that way, but that's what, that's the movie that they made - whether they meant to make it or not.
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Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.
