Marcel Proust Quotes
So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
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Life does not owe me a shred.
Valerie Harper -
I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
Larry Wilcox -
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
Samuel Butler -
I'm interested in playing, not working.
Captain Beefheart -
Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
Carl Honore -
We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
Ville Valo HIM
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
Pat Gillick -
I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
Natalia Kills -
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
Nancy Grace -
If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
Naomi Klein -
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
Walter Pater
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
Lara Stone -
When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
Warren Farrell -
We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.
Narendra Modi -
Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
Rachel Kushner -
You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.
Xavier Becerra -
I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
Naguib Mahfouz
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Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
Karen Duffy -
I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.
Christina Hendricks -
I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.
P. Chidambaram -
I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.
Billie Piper -
I'm friends with Elizabeth Banks - she's a great actress but not actressy at all. She's very cool. I adore her.
Elizabeth Reaser -
So long as I know what's boiling in my pot I don't bother my head about what's in other people's.
Marcel Proust