Marcel Proust Quotes
L'adultère introduit l'esprit dans la lettre que bien souvent le mariage eût laissée morte.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.
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Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
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In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
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The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
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'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.
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I have always done work to which my heart says yes.
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Art advances by self-mutilation of the artist.
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Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
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The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
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And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...
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When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.
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Everyone is trying to reach for their own stars, and all of those stars aren’t light-years away. They are as close as our job, our family, our children, our next-door neighbors and our good friends.
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It was a face which darkness could killin an instant
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I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.
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I'm a humble guy, but I'm audacious.
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I have had to make a decision I may not agree with, but I am required to follow the letter of the law. It is not my job to think what is best... My responsibility is to decide what the law says and to decide to the law.
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To be true, you have to take the plunge, to touch bottom. But most people want to be in control. They fear the worst. You can’t control anything. What you have to do is let yourself be taken over.. .All the paintings I have made, I was compelled to make. You must never force yourself.
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George Bush is not stupid. He's evil. OK? There's a huge difference between stupid and evil.
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One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
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L'adultère introduit l'esprit dans la lettre que bien souvent le mariage eût laissée morte.
