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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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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I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
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I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.
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Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.
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Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.
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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.
