Honore de Balzac Quotes
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
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Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
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The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
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My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.
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Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
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Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.
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For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
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I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.
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I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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No one can keep a secret better than a child.
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Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time
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There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.
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The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.
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The secret of poetry is cruelty.
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There was a show in which these scientists shared the secrets of the world's oldest living people, people still functioning past 100 years-old. They found that they exercised everyday, they ate in proportion, that they had a social network of family and friends, and that they had some sort of faith. So, that's what I'm doing now, very consciously. Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.
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They don't know you're secretly a badass?
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The problem with the so-called bloody surveillance state is that it’s hard work trying to track someone’s movements using CCTV – especially if they’re on foot. Part of the problem is that the cameras all belong to different people for different reasons. Westminster Council has a network for traffic violations, the Oxford Street Trading Association has a huge network aimed at shop-lifters and pickpockets, individual shops have their own systems, as do pubs, clubs and buses. When you walk around London it is important to remember that Big Brother may be watching you, or he could be having a piss, or reading the paper or helping redirect traffic around a car accident or maybe he’s just forgotten to turn the bloody thing on.
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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
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It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.
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The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.