Marcel Proust Quotes
It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.
Quotes to Explore
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All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.
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I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200 years old as an institution - the oldest bank, and indeed the oldest company in Australia. So that's a lovely point to reflect on.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
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If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.
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I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
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I'm a hopeless romantic.
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Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.
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When you guest-star, you're usually at the center of the dramatic arc, so that's fun.
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My head works in music, so there's always music there.
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Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.
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By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.
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I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.
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Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.
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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject.
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Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.
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And yet we are but tenants. Let us assure ourselves of this, and then it will not be so hard to make room for the new administration; for shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
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The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this coincidence, is successfully brought about, then we find one of the things that no image-making medium can accomplish to the same degree.
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It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them.
