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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My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
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My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.
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I have a strongly held belief that one of the reasons that Amazon has been successful is because we do not obsess over competitors. Instead we obsess over customers.
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Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
