Honore de Balzac Quotes
Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.
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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
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Snowden is an orderly thinker, with an engineer's approach to problem-solving.
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The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.
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If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!'
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There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire. But so far, I've continued to grow. I keep pushing myself to improve.
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This country is conducive to making money. Once you learn this lesson and make your first deal, you will really appreciate the tools available to you in the United States, the tools that will help you 'boot-strap' yourself into a large income.
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When you have children, that's your main focus.
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It’s worth living abroad to study up on genteel and delicate manners. The maid smiles continuously; she smiles like a duchess on a stage, while at the same time it is clear from her face that she is exhausted from overwork.
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I perfectly understand the obsession with shoes. I myself am pretty obsessed. I have a few hundred pairs of shoes in general, because I've been collecting shoes for a long time.
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I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once you experience an elastic band for a waist, you will never go back.
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My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
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There's been the emergence of a philosophy that big data is all you need. We would suggest that, actually, numbers don't speak for themselves.
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I am not so naive to think that I can make every problem in the health service go away. No minister can. And never will be able to.
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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
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I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room.
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Good words cool more than cold water.
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It's impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.
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You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.
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Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.
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Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.
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I think President Barack Obama came to office with quite fundamental understandings in his mind about what's possible and what's not possible in the Middle East. The first, I would say, revolutionary breakthrough that he introduced is that the Middle East doesn't matter to American geostrategy as much as we think.
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Why should we change on stage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.
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Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.
