Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
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I am and will always be a Laker for life.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.
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An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.
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I don't necessarily see my not wearing makeup as a social comment or that it's because I work in a female-dominated industry.
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I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
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The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
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Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
