Marcel Proust Quotes
The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Botox not only helps with wrinkles, it actually makes you feel more relaxed as frowning causes tension.
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
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She was very kind to us when Joe and I went through the darkest days of the leak of my name in 2003. And, of course, Joe worked in the Clinton White House.
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I love Korean food, and it's kind of like home to me. The area that I grew up in outside Chicago, Glenview, is heavily Korean. A lot of my friends growing up were Korean and when I would eat dinner at their houses, their parents wouldn't tell me the names of the dishes because I would butcher the language.
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To make war, you had to be filled with love, with a vehement passion, exalted, intoxicated, otherwise the whole thing was inhuman and absurd.
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Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.
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When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
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When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.
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Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
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God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.
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The highest praise of God consists in the denial of him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.
