Honore de Balzac Quotes
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo.
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It's more about what was going on in town at that time, the places and the bands. Our band was in the center of all that. That was a special time.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
