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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Who decides what is and what isn't punk? I want to write songs that people hear and feel, and I want to be successful and reach a big audience. I'm not trying to be the coolest guy in the world; I'm trying to write songs that mean something to people. As you get successful, sometimes you lose one set of fans and gain another.
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If you look at my track record as government chief scientific advisor, I've always recognized that all of the sciences are important to all of research, and we need a balance.
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Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
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Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.
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Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.
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Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.