Marcel Proust Quotes

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

Marcel Proust

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• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
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• Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

  

  Orson Welles
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• I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • War
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• The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • School
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• When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Better

• The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its inception as a city. I'm always excited about the possibility of what might happen. That's what drives us, and I think that's the spirit of New Orleans and the spirit of jazz.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Think
  • City
  • Inspired

• In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

  

  Albert Claude
  • Growing
  • Universe
  • Doubt

• It was always one of my favorite things, the action figures, the video games, when I was with WWE, even though I'm not a gamer. I would literally go out and buy the games just so I could play myself.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Action

• On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

  

  Frederick Soddy
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.

  

  Levon Helm
  • Up

• We went to Ibiza, and I was on Ritalin, and, for a kid who couldn't concentrate, I read a 200-page book on King Arthur, and my mum just hated it. She said it just wasn't me.

  

  Alfie Allen
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• I'm not auditioning to play convenience-store clerks. I don't see any benefit in that.

  

  Adhir Kalyan

• If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

  

  Alan Bleasdale
  • Business

• I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • People
  • Science
  • Dark

• The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Travel
  • Two
  • Friendly

• If you truly want to be successful, spend less time following the lives of other people and more time leading your own.

  

  Darren Hardy
  • People
  • Successful
  • Following

• A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

  

  John Milton
  • Nights
  • Continent
  • Boundless

• One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Civilization
  • Understood
  • Possession

• I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I'm a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day.

  

  Alan Titchmarsh
  • Books
  • Scenery
  • Cruises

• Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Suffering
  • Physicians
  • Invalids