Marcel Proust Quotes
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
Taylor Swift -
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
Ibrahim Babangida -
The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, universal truths: the existence and Oneness of the Maker of the universe; Prophethood; bodily Resurrection; and worship and justice.
Said Nursi -
If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
La Monte Young -
My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
Karen Bender -
I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
Van Morrison
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I'm a man without a corporation.
Paddy Chayefsky -
Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
Gavin Newsom -
I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
Landon Donovan -
I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
Saad Hariri -
That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
Abraham Lincoln -
What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
Ralph Fiennes
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In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.
Karen DeCrow -
We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.
Lal Bahadur Shastri -
I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.
Paige VanZant -
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao Tzu -
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
Vin Scully -
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
Edgar Allan Poe
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One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it, is contraception. I came across someone who articulated very clearly that one of the things which makes our approach to Buddhist practice in regards to sex different these days than it was in Buddhist times, is the simple existence of reliable contraception, which is a no brainer but I missed really addressing it in the book.
Brad Warner -
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
Irvine Welsh -
People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
Ban Ki-moon -
Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.
Marcel Proust