Marcel Proust Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Badminton is not a popular sport in India.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.
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Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
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Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
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Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
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The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
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I've always wanted to entertain people, and when I was in school, I was interested in creative writing, but wrestling was always there. When I ran into financial problems, I just figured when life gives you lemons, you have to make lemonade.
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Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.
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The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.
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Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
