Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Islam means peace.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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I built Kosovo for 10 years.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
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Obviously, when you're up against somebody you don't like there's extra motivation, but I don't think any person going for an Olympic gold is going to put friendship first.
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I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
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When I was small I didn't really know what i was doing. I just sang and it came out sounding pretty good. I just do it and it happens.
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See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad let's cut but then this dame comes up behind me see and says you and me could really exist Wow I says Only the next day she has bad teeth and really hates poetry.
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The best protection against recidivism is a job.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
