Marcel Proust Quotes
People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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People dream their whole lives of their Oscar speech; I dreamt my whole life of hosting the Oscars.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been added in almost every conceivable category that there are no more free passes on just getting there first. I think there are greater expectations for audience participation, the kind of participation that makes a real impact in a show's community.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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Even if I believed there was a real Jesus, I wouldn't fall for that line of hogwash. The "Virgin" Mary should get a posthumous medal for telling the biggest goddamn lie that was ever told. Anybody who believes that will believe that the moon is made out of green cheese.
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Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.
