Marcel Proust Quotes
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
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I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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I don't have a strong interest in history.
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If I did not believe that our work was done in the faith and hope that at some day, it may be a million years hence, the Kingdom of God will spread over the whole world, I would have no hope, I could do no work, and I would give my office over this morning to anyone who would take it.
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And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
