Marcel Proust Quotes
Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.
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I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
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Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
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We do like digital projection. We like shooting on film, finishing digitally, and projection digitally. That's what I like best. It's still a movie. It's not someone's camcorder and it got projected. That's mean, I know.
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I have a Baldwin in my L.A. apartment, a Steinway in my New York apartment, and a Kawai plexiglass grand piano in storage for shows. I still play for two or three hours every day.
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Actors can't retire. What would they do?
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I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this: "Go back to Africa."
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We need visions of a future in which we have applied our infinite creativity to the task of living on a finite world, where we have embraced our role, become comfortable and proficient as planet-shapers, and learned to use our technological skills to enhance the survival prospects not just of humanity but of all life on Earth.
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
