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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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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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The truth is lived, not taught.
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Everyday is another chance to get things right.
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Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.
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Where do you think I was today? I stood straight in front of him (Himmler) for a whole hour and talked, and he... he played with a puzzle the whole time – you know, this glass cube with three balls on the inside... When I finished, he took off his pince-nez, wiped it with a handkerchief – he has a skull even on his handkerchief – and said, "Listen, Ernst! Have you by any chance, ever had a dream, where you're riding in the back of a ragged truck to who knows where, and some monsters are sitting around you?" I didn’t say anything. Then he smiled and said, "Ernst, you know, I know as well as you that no astral exists. But what do you think, if you, and even Canaris, have your own people in 'Annenerbe', shouldn’t I have my own people there as well?" I did not understand what he meant. "Think Ernst, think!" he said. I kept silent. Then he smiled and asked, "Whose man do you think is Kröger?" …Yes, Emma... It seems I'm too simple for all these intrigues... But I know that while the Führer needs me, my heart will keep beating...You know, Emma... Sometimes it seems to me, that it's not me who is alive, but it's the Führer who is living inside me...
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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.
