Marcel Proust Quotes

Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

Marcel Proust

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• Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Fire
  • Safety
  • Year

• A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Up
  • Law
  • Stop

• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• Reading is a huge part of life.

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Part

• We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Good
  • Society
  • Animal

• My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Good
  • Real
  • She

• Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Better
  • Well

• I do everything I can to have a diverse career because I just want to have options. I know that I can do Hamlet or I can do Stanley Kowalski, you know.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Career
  • Want
  • Know

• There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not fully there, manage a life when you don't make a lot of money. It's very adult.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Life
  • Family
  • Money

• I like action-adventure movies.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Action
  • Like
  • Movies

• Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Faith

• Sí, trataré de ser. Porque creo que es orgullo no ser.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I'm not in charge of my life.

  

  Jennifer Weiner
  • Life

• I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.

  

  Kerry Washington

• I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

  

  Jeffrey Pierce

• All spiritual things are to be treated with sacred dignity. Humility and meekness are in accordance with the life of Christ, but they are to be shown in a dignified way.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Humility

• I've experienced success, I've experienced failure, I've been a world champion, I've fought all over the world; I think I've experienced enough that I won't get in front of a million people and get gunshy.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • People
  • World
  • Success

• If we are going to get a grip on escalating costs, we have to focus more on prevention rather than acute care. Technology can help us do that.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Help
  • Technology
  • Focus

• If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Trump

• Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have naturally but others have to practice. The goal is to keep one area of your life that might not be going well from causing unnecessary disruptions in another area.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Great
  • Men

• There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Good
  • Age
  • Practice

• You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft.

  

  Leslie Nielsen
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Truth
  • Practice
  • Consort

• Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Practice
  • Profession
  • Recognize