Marcel Proust Quotes
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn -
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.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
Ralph Marston -
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
Sam Harris -
Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
Ralph Fiennes -
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
Barry Ritholtz
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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.
Jack Hannah -
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.
A. R. Rahman -
A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
Victor Hugo -
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.
Maeve Binchy -
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.
Ted Sarandos -
Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
Dan Buettner
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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.
D'Angelo -
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.
Eddie Campbell -
'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.
Vince Gilligan -
They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
Adam Petty -
I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.
Halima Aden -
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.
Barbara Castle
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I went to school in Massachusetts at Hampshire College.
Liev Schreiber -
It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.
Jerry Yang -
The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.
Bill Vaughan -
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Experience through freedom is the only means to arrive at the truth and the best solutions; and there is no freedom if there is not the freedom to be wrong.
Errico Malatesta -
You can't learn the truth about a man's intentions by asking him.
Marcel Proust