Marcel Proust Quotes
I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.
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Contrary to many of the rumors and innuendo in circulation, I wholeheartedly believe that Obama views Israel's security as absolute.
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When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.
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I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.
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Every now and again I want to go to the beach and be in the sun, but that's a very rare feeling, so I could live in London, definitely.
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The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
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Any brute will demand his right to be a law unto himself, beating his wife and his children as he pleases, and defend that right with his father’s rifle and think himself a patriot.
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Vae victis!
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When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not because it was highfalutin' in any way - just because they didn't know anybody in that field. They were anxious of a profession they knew nothing about.
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I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open.
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She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as women judge men - not on the strength of their arguments, and not on their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, the strength of their soul, their compassion, and - ah, this above all - their conversation.
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It should be natural, and that's how I like women to look. I like them to feel comfortable and look organic.
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Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.
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I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.
