Marcel Proust Quotes
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.
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It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.
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Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust.
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You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.
