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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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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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
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Well, we're out of time here. Regardless of that, and what might be perceived as our disagreement on the substance of this, my great thanks for coming out and speaking to this under these circumstances.
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The stigma of being an unmarried mother was something we can't comprehend today. It was not uncommon that you'd go off somewhere to have your child, then give it up for adoption.
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Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
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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.
