Marcel Proust Quotes
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
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Think the unthinkable, Imagine the impossible Pursue the imaginations limits.
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Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company.
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Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.
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With one image he would make that beauty explode into me.
