Marcel Proust Quotes
When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.
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You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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Good sports facilities are a blessing.
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I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.
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The appointment of judges to the higher judiciary cannot be the sole domain of a few members of the higher judiciary. This turf must be shared.
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I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.
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A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
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My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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So I just play the character, I play the lines.
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I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.
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A girlfriend had caught me in a compromising situation with another girl, ... In trying to defuse the situation, I said 'please, stop in the name of love,' as corny as that may sound. Then I said 'Wow, did you hear that cash register? That's how things happen, songs come out of nowhere.
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When my mother was trying to teach me how to make friends when I was a kid, she'd bring girls over to the house and I'd give them all my clothes. Nothing changes, I still do it. And then I wonder, "Where is that really nice Isabel Marant dress that I spent a fortune on? Oh my god, I gave it to Liza."
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But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.
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I have a different starting premise from those 100 academics who are so heavily invested in the regime of low expectations and narrow horizons which they have created.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose
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When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.
