Marcel Proust Quotes
The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.
Quotes to Explore
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
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The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love.
