Marcel Proust Quotes
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.Marcel Proust
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
Jack Osbourne -
I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
Natalie Zea -
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
Garth Brooks -
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
Harry Browne -
I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
Dambisa Moyo
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
Nat Wolff -
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
Jack Kevorkian -
I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
Zubin Mehta -
Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
Mads Mikkelsen -
It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
Tamra Davis
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
Carl Hiaasen -
One can not impede scientific progress.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
G. Edward Griffin -
When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
Patrick Demarchelier -
Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
Wellington Mara -
Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
Orlando Bloom
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
Talcott Parsons -
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
Dan Brown -
I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.
Count Basie -
Obviously, I'm in a visual business, and people will talk to me about my appearance.
Megyn Kelly -
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
Marcel Proust