Marcel Proust Quotes
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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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.
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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.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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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.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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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.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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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.
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
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Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
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The roots that weave up my right arm and onto my neck are my way of connecting with the earth: the earth's roots carry water like a human's veins carry blood.
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You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.
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The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
