Marcel Proust Quotes
We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own.
Quotes to Explore
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As kids, we have all handled shot guns. From there on, there is no transition. It stays in the toy box. The idea is to get the transition and bridge the gap between the toy box and the shooting range.
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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.
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We are always anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
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The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.
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You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
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Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread, Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon The tall hat and eyes, the fierce feet, for dead Descry, and fix you prone in their revelling moon.
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The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.
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Nobody's dumb in this relationship [with his wife] or in the relationships of any of the other guys in the band. But it's also not the cliché that those on the outside envision.
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I take the same approach in all genres of art, across the board. It's intuitive.
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In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
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The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
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But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress.
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The live concerts are everything and I’m very grateful that most of my career, I’m a live artist, I’ve been doing this. So I’ve traveled quite a lot, played in - I never stopped playing.
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I'm the oldest, I have the most experience, and I'm the best looking [betwin brothers]. I've been told that on numerous occasions.
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At first, I didn't really care if global warming existed. But then I realized it means that less bums would freeze to death in the winter
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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.
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One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.
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Realizing the doctrine of dependent-arising, the wise do not at all partake of extreme views.
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Freedom of speech means not only freedom for the views with which you agree but also freedom for the views which you hate and deplore.
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own.
