Marcel Proust Quotes
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
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I've been a lucky boy.
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Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
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My mother read me biblical stories at night.
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For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
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The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
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There are so many great players walking the planet but it is rare to find musicians that can live life together in a way that isn't ego centric. For whatever reason, musicians are just bizarrely composed humans. I think I'm living in the middle of a miracle.
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Communication and games make for a sticky application.
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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
