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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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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On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.
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People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
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We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.
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In life, you have to learn how to heal. You never get over stuff, but you have to learn how to heal.
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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.
