Marcel Proust Quotes
It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.
Quotes to Explore
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.
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Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
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I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
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Your anger is a gift.
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Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
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Then he launched into a classic statement of his political philosophy. I appreciate all you say about what Bryanism means, and I also … am as strongly opposed to populism in every stage as the greatest representative of corrupt wealth, but … these representatives … have themselves been responsible for a portion of the conditions against which Bryanism is in ignorant, and sometimes wicked revolt. I do not believe it is wise or safe for us as a party to take refuge in mere negation and to say that there are no evils to be corrected. It seems to me that our attitude should be one of correcting the evils and thereby showing, that, whereas the populists, socialists and others really do not correct the evils at all … the Republicans hold the just balance and set our faces as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other.
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Eccentricity has never been discouraged in our family.
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Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.
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It is desire that engenders belief and if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with our own life.
