Marcel Proust Quotes
We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.
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In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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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.'
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What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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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.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.
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... the human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart weaves before our eyes in order to blind us to our fate. The body walks and goes on walking.
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The curiosity of the human mind is essential if you want citizens who think rather than accept the first nonsense they come to.
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I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am. Solitude is indispensible for my dialogue with nature.
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Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us.
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We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.
