Marcel Proust Quotes
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People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
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Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
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Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
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Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.
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Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.
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On the contrary, it's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics . It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!
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What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
