Marcel Proust Quotes
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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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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!
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This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them want to say, 'Wow, that was great. Give me another one to read.'
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If you sit around and wait for things to happen, they're not going to happen the way you want.
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Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.
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I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
