Marcel Proust Quotes
We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.
Quotes to Explore
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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Working with Adrien Brody was like going to Julliard, but instead of four years, I went for four weeks. He was like the Albert Einstein of professors, it was just the best experience of my life. Adrien was the most influential mentor in my acting career thus far, and even after the movie he continues to mentor me.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like, 'A vegetarian's coming to dinner,' so they serve those.
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Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
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Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
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The social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.
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We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.
