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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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.
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When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
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Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there is, and can be, nothing freely given. It's fresh existence is paid for by the old age and death of a worn out existence which has perished, but which contained the indestructible seed out of which the new existence has arisen: they are one being.
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What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
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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.
