Marcel Proust Quotes
Il n'y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot, le mot contraire.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.
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My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.
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There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.
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To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
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I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
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I almost never cry, and it's something I don't like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I'm in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it so much easier.
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Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
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Momma was the important woman in our home. She never let me forget that she was boss. I was always in the shadow. Every time I tried to step out on my own, I was in trouble with her.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.
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I have sympathy for the people in Syria, and I do think there should be a worldwide response, but we should act cautiously.
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I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.
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Il n'y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot, le mot contraire.
