Honore de Balzac Quotes
Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.Honore de Balzac
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
Tamron Hall -
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
Ed Smith -
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
Dan Quayle -
I'll watch CNN in the mornings to catch up on what's going on. On the weekends, I get the Sunday edition of 'The New York Times.'
Sam Trammell -
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Lao Tzu -
Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.
Edmund Phelps
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
Wendy Kopp -
Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.
Vanessa Hudgens -
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
Orison Swett Marden -
If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
Sabrina Carpenter -
Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
Irving Azoff -
My life is so full of sacrifices.
Zubin Mehta
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While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
Forest Whitaker -
Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
Vijay Mallya -
I write about true-life type things.
Karen Kingsbury -
If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
Walter Map -
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
Pat Conroy -
The kind of world I'm endlessly going on about is pretty well doomed, but nevertheless I think there are recesses of it worth celebrating.
Iain Sinclair
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I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are depriving themselves of intellectual stimulation in the workplace - and personal growth - by sticking to the stultifying, rigid system that I call corporatism.
Edmund Phelps -
I don't take criticism lying down.
William Westmoreland -
Execution is the chariot of genius.
William Blake -
What we want to do to monetize Venmo is to add more and more capabilities. Anywhere you see a PayPal merchant, you can click on that button and actually use your Venmo account to check out at that merchant. Then we'll monetize that transaction exactly the same way we monetize a PayPal transaction.
Dan Schulman -
I've always tried to be the person who says things no one else wants to say. I've always kept it in house, as opposed to going to the papers.
Eli Manning -
Genius is answerable only to itself; it is the sole judge of the means, since it alone knows the end; thus genius must consider itself as above the law, for it is the task of genius to remake the law; moreover the man who frees himself from his time and place may take everything, hazard everything, for everything is his by right.
Honore de Balzac