Marcel Proust Quotes

One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

Marcel Proust

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• Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Power
  • Black
  • Brain

• My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Time
  • Stuff
  • Fantasy

• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• I have crazy friends, so a lot of times when we're out, people recognize me on the street, but they will yell, 'This is Cameron Boyce!' and just run! They do that. Then I'm in the middle of the street with people looking at me.

  

  Cameron Boyce
  • People
  • Friends
  • Crazy

• I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Road

• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Girl

• I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Listen
  • Radio
  • Too Much

• Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.

  

  Faith Prince
  • People
  • Done
  • Fun

• Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Lose
  • Economic
  • Recovery

• I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Lose

• Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Family
  • Together
  • Changes

• I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Great
  • Growth
  • Pride

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

  

  Ralph Thomas Walker
  • Cheap
  • Scorn
  • Shoddy

• Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Certainly
  • Itself
  • Lends

• One day, I want to make a PG film.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Day
  • Film

• I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Community
  • Responsibility

• You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.

  

  Karl Popper
  • World
  • Important
  • Political

• Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • America
  • War

• Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is likely, all unwittingly, to do the opposite, for bearing witness is lonely: it breeds feelings of superiority and moralistic anger against those who are not doing the same.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • World
  • History
  • Moral

• Please allow me to introduce myself … I am Black the Knife, I am secretly famous, I have designer genes. I’m on a macropsychotic diet, I’m anarchorexic, I underwent paleolithium treatment, I’m the 6-Pac-Man! I not only know Who Wrote the Book of Love, I edited out the mushy parts!

  

  Bob Black
  • Book
  • Black
  • Famous

• Invest time in languages and intercultural awareness. Focus on becoming part of global citizenry. In exchange for the opportunity to participate everywhere/anywhere in the world you have the obligation to do something productive, which will improve the world. Develop a personal mission, a desire to leave personal legacy.

  

  C. K. Prahalad
  • Time
  • World
  • Opportunity

• One becomes moral as soon as one is unhappy.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Moral
  • Unhappy