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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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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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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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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The customer is usually wrong; but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so.
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Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.
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I'm trying to make the world a more open place.
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Footnotes are for proving and showing where you've been. Also, they're for the curious - they can then go and find the information on their own.
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I'm the benefactor of people who are doing so much hard work championing women composers.
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Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.
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Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.
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You want to harbor your resources and try not to make a mistake.
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We have to be sure we don't pigeonhole one group as though they're not part of the human family, as though there's a different set of rules for them. That would be a big mistake.
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I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
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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.
