Marcel Proust Quotes
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Marcel Proust
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
K. D. Lang
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
Naguib Mahfouz
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It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.
Caprice Bourret
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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
Feist
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Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the sky was blotted with broomsticks and I couldn't find my wand. It was so intense. I always have mental, intense, war wizard dreams when I'm doing the films.
Natalia Tena
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Whether rich people make money or lose money, they get no sympathy from the public.
Gary Ackerman
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
Natalie Dormer
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I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
Daisaku Ikeda
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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
H. L. Mencken
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Ah, wasteful woman, she who mayOn her sweet self set her own price,Knowing man cannot choose but pay,How has she cheapen'd paradise;How given for nought her priceless gift,How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine,Which, spent with due, respective thrift,Had made brutes men, and men divine.
Coventry Patmore
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I've played every beer joint tavern from New York City out to PasadenaEvery corn dog fair and rodeoAnd sold out every basketball arenaI like to get down with my boys in Afghanistan and Baghdad city tooI am a red, white and blue blood graduate of Honkytonk U.
Toby Keith
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I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.
Emily Blunt
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Out of profound gratitude for my adopted country, I can only say that I would like in this land to live and die, and while I live to help other people as much as possible, believing that only in service to other people can I possibly express my gratitude for all that America has done for me.
Peter Marshall
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I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics.
Sia
LSD
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After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.
Charles Perrault
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I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.
Marcel Proust