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.
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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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Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.
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Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.
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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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Laws are sometimes put on the books not for purposes of strict enforcement but as statements about the community’s values.
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When you come off 'The X Factor,' you're more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There's this kind of feeling that you're separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels.
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When I was a kid, I loved horror films. I used to stay up on Saturday night to watch.
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... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasn’t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masons’ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!
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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.
