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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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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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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At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.
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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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The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him.
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I know that the greatest of actresses has about 20 good years of acting in her and that she will go on living for 30 or 40 years as a human being. So, the conclusion I have come to is that I can't make acting my whole life.
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A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.
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The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.
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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.
