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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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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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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We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.
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I want to be host of 'SNL.' I want to work with Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, J.J. Abrams, Emma Stone and Tim Burton, Sean Penn, Cameron Crowe. I want to work with Adam Sandler - he is so funny - and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
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I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.
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I think that no woman has to defend her body, and she should just live her truth. It should never be about the number size of her pants, and it should be about what you're doing in the world. What does her brain look like and not her hip size.
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You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.
