Marcel Proust Quotes
The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.Marcel Proust
Quotes to Explore
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
Oren Peli -
That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
Ralph Nader -
If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
Wanda Sykes -
Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.
Ban Ki-moon -
The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
Paddy Considine
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The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.
Tananarive Due -
I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.
Rachel Boston -
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
Oscar Wilde -
The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
A. E. van Vogt -
Almost all the people who have had most effect on me I seem to have met by chance.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Ultimately, I conclude that however we understand existence, what gives meaning to our lives are those things that serve our neurochemically based emotional self-interest in a sustainable way.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
Anthony Trollope -
Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.
Bertrand Russell -
In my mind, I'm always the best. I don't care what people think, what they say. In my mind, not just this year but always, I'm always the best.
Cristiano Ronaldo -
The best mind-altering drug is truth.
Lily Tomlin -
Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.
Christian Scott -
A study by the Federal Trade Commission found that concerns about every vertical merger examined by the commission from 2006 to 2012 were resolved through 'conduct remedies' rather than divestitures, and that all these remedies had been successful at protecting competition.
James B. Stewart
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
Sam Hunt -
We used to say to the apartheid government: you may have the guns, you may have all this power, but you have already lost. Come: join the winning side. His Holiness and the Tibetan people are on the winning side.
Desmond Tutu -
The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.
Marcel Proust