Marcel Proust Quotes
But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover, life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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The fact is that democracy anywhere in the world, including in the United States, is not something that comes easy. And yet, we are committed to it, and equality and democracy are the only ways in the long run that Jews will be safe in the Middle East.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.
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My friends are much more dangerous than my enemies. These latter – with infinite subtlety – spin webs to keep me out of places where I hate to go, – and tell stories of me to people whom it would be vanity and vexation to meet; – and they help me so much by their unconscious aid that I almost love them.
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Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience, different ways of thinking about patients or customers or voters so that when you bring that intellect, you look at opportunity and risk, and then you have it in much better balance.
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What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they..
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But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover, life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
