Honore de Balzac Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
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I feel comfortable with the ball in my hands.
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
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For documentaries, I think streaming plays an amazing role, but it's a problem when the one service you initially relied on to have an incredible buffet - 'Come and see a lot of world cinema, and the lives of ordinary people as well' - all of a sudden is narrowed down until it's just gladiator after gladiator - and bloodlust.
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While most people in TV, radio, and the press have treated me wonderfully, some of the most important people want to pretend I don't exist.
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Campaign may invite a certain skepticism about democracy, but it will surely restore your faith in cinema verite.
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
