Marcel Proust Quotes
Tout ce que nous connaissons de grand nous vient des nerveux. Ce sont eux et non pas d'autres qui ont fondé les religions et composé les chefs-d'œuvre.4Marcel Proust
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But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
Vernor Vinge -
Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
Orson F. Whitney -
An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
Cameron Mackintosh -
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
Walter Lippmann -
I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.
Olivier Theyskens -
I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
Jack Whitehall
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
Patricia McCormick -
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Calvin Trillin -
I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
Waverley Lewis Root -
I love what I do.
Vanessa Paradis -
Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
Naveen Jain
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
Yoko Ono -
I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.
Rain -
At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.
Barry Eisler -
I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.
K. D. Lang -
I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.
Tammy Blanchard -
I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.
Vanessa Hudgens
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Throughout the years following World War II and until the formation of the European Economic Community in 1958, I was very active as a national or international rapporteur at many of the international conferences aiming to establish an European community.
Maurice Allais -
All I want to do is change the world.
W. Clement Stone -
Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
Earl Wilson -
Not smoking enough will cause lung cancer! If anybody is getting a cancerous activity in the lung, the probabilities are that it's radiation dosage coupled with the fact that he smokes. And what it does is start to run out the radiation dosage, don't you see.
L. Ron Hubbard -
I'm honored to sit on the House Intelligence Committee and am proud to chair the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.
Elise Stefanik -
Tout ce que nous connaissons de grand nous vient des nerveux. Ce sont eux et non pas d'autres qui ont fondé les religions et composé les chefs-d'œuvre.4
Marcel Proust