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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During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
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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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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
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The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
