Marcel Proust Quotes
The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...
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I think what Laura Linney was saying about teaching her all the lessons as a child actor, right, that's a whole ball of wax. That's a really mixed bag of stuff. I look at so many people that I knew personally or didn't know personally but who have ended badly, have died young, have been destitute - there are a lot of bad child-actor-gone-wrong stories, a very high percentage, but I think the thing about it is that a lot of those are Hollywood stories, and you don't have that same kind of a thing in the theater.
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I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.
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He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.
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We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.
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All of the Mets road wins against the Dodgers this year occurred at Dodger Stadium.
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Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.
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These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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I used to be, like, "Sleep when I die."
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If you live with love... You will love living.
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What we really are we're playing a little bit of Monopoly with somebody else providing the funds and that's Ottawa.
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The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'
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I grew up in Lucknow, which is famous for its street food and kebabs. It was the street food and Lucknowi kebabs that inspired me. The culture of the varieties of food that I tasted as a child inspired me to be a cook.
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For the first time, I left Naples, left Campania. I discovered that I was afraid of everything: afraid of taking the wrong train, afraid of having to pee and not knowing where to do it, afraid that it would be night and I wouldn’t be able to orient myself in an unfamiliar city, afraid of being robbed. I put all my money in my bra, as my mother did, and spent hours in a state of wary anxiety that coexisted seamlessly with a growing sense of liberation.
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The sight of the little madeleine had recalled nothing to my mind before I tasted it...
