Honore de Balzac Quotes
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.
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Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.
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The truth was, I needed to impress them. I knew from my previous discussions with Ben that you needed money or brains to get into the University. The more of one you had, the less of the other you needed.
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I like to describe my stuff as observational comedy.
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I always thought of Caesars as the gold standard. I had exactly one date in high school, and my father knew someone who got us comped here for the Sammy Davis Jr. show. We heard 'Candy Man,' 'Mr. Bojangles' - the whole list. And then my date and I went off to the dance - homecoming, I think - where she pretty much ignored me.
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I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.
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I grew up on all of the great spy movies and TV series of the Sixties - not just Bond, but Derek Flint and the Avengers and Modesty Blaise and the Man from UNCLE and on and on. Every time I sit down to work on Cinderella, I'm writing a love letter to all of those characters.
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My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.
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I just want to live in a world where I can tell a guy, 'This is the deal: I really want this. I really want you. But it's also not that deep.'
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The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.
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Be impeccable with your word.
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You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.
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There are times where the dysfunction in the Senate just goes too far.
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I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. I thought it was necessary to update the figure of the bohemian, but not in the traditional way.
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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
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I think one of the reasons we haven't seen more of an official response to this is that the signs aren't offensive in any way.
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Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I've made an effort.
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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
