Marcel Proust Quotes
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
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I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
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My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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Certainly situation comedy is harder than people who are good at it make it look, but it's fun to do something different.
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Human beings can imagine situations which are different from those in front of their eyes... because they make and hold in their minds images for absent things.
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
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Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.
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It is the mistake of a coxcomb, whose experience of affection is all to come-if it ever comes-to say that women are won by mere good looks. Though it does not owe its birth to them. Gratitude and Vanity are the nurses that rock the cradle of Love.
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I seem to be able to just sort of sink and slide under the radar, which is nice.
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The global warming is going on. These are not single cases. These are all part of a general way we've been looking at the world. As long as we look at the world that way it's going to go on. Because the idea that the important thing is for some people get rich while the rest of the people work for them is very deeply dug in...
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It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since, as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
