Marcel Proust Quotes
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
Mahershala Ali -
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Quintilian -
I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.
Karl Shapiro -
There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
Jack Kemp -
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
Salman Rushdie
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When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.
Dana Priest -
When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
Ingrid Betancourt -
Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
Idries Shah -
When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
Jackie Speier -
Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.
Sam Altman -
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
E. M. Forster
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Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.
Calvin Johnson -
It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'
Aasif Mandvi -
The imperturbability of the Church resides in her ability to harmonize the unconditional preservation of eternal truths with an unmatchable elasticity of adjustment to the circumstances and challenges of changing times.
Edith Stein -
Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow
T. S. Eliot -
By Numbers here from Shame or Censure free,All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.This, only this, the rigid Law persues,This, only this, provokes the snarling Muse.
Samuel Johnson -
Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.
Camille Paglia
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I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For example, there's some play in the steering column before it engages as you're turning the wheel.
Ian Bogost -
I am left to defend the 'dead' Constitution.
Antonin Scalia -
And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.
David Coleman -
Happiness, in truth, may not be the fruit plucked by my action yet without action all fruit will die on the vine. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.
Og Mandino -
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
Marcel Proust