Marcel Proust Quotes
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
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So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.
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For the most part, I think of PC as meaning Plain Civil. You treat people the way you'd like to be treated yourself, and that means not using language that is demeaning.
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Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.
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I've always felt robbed of something by people not knowing I was a Jew.
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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.
