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.
Nas
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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.
Irwin Redlener
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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.
Natalie Cole
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
Maisie Williams
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There's such a fan base for 'Dark Shadows'. I remember watching the show as a kid, but I wasn't an ardent fan. I didn't run home from school to watch it.
Jackie Earle Haley
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
Vera Farmiga
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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.
Abigail Disney
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
Salma Hayek
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
Bao Dai
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Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
Maisie Williams
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
Imran Amed
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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.
Samuel Dash
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Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
Karen Abbott
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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.
Jacob Bronowski
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso
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Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.
Bart Starr
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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.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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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.
Nancy Pelosi
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I would definitely say that I am a very big movie musical fan in general, and I try to see every one that I possibly can - and 'Glee' every week.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
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The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.
James Stephens
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Men learn to call pain 'glory'; women learn to call the police.
Warren Farrell
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We are absolutely clear: when these unaccompanied minors have a family link in the United Kingdom, then they must go to the United Kingdom. And they must go quickly and in an efficient fashion.
Francois Hollande
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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.
Marcel Proust