Marcel Proust Quotes
The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.
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It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.
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This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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I don't know why we choose to reach out to help another person, or why we decide that we can't, and withdraw and try to care only for ourselves, but I'm fascinated by that choice.
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There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on every occasion. It's just like somebody writing a screenplay or something like that.
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There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live.
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Love? he asked himself, giving no sense of recognition for that word in the dictionary of his mind. It was the only battle he had lost in life, the only thing that had been snatched away from him, before he could even claim it.
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West Indian cricket means so much to people who live here. And when we're not doing well, we all feel it.
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The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.
