Honore de Balzac Quotes
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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My emergence has been slow and steady, I would say. I think I've improved every single year. I keep getting better; I keep getting fitter, sharper - and I'm not stopping.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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But I think we need the international market.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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I'm scared of screwing up my kids.
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There are many diamonds in the world and if you lose your favorite, you can work hard, earn a lot of money and get another one to replace it. But the moments of your life aren't like that. Once they're gone, they'll never return. Each and every one is the most precious thing in existence. You can never meaningfully compare one moment with any other. You can never meaningfully compare your life with anyone else's. No matter how rich someone else may be, no matter how happy they look, no matter how enlightened they seem, they can never be you. Never, ever, ever. Only you can live your life.
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Despite the strength of the feminist movement in the 1970s and beyond, a fable has persisted that educated women are rejected as marriage partners.
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In our advanced technological age, most people deny the possibility of miracles.... Miracles don't happen, we are told, because they contravene the laws of nature and worse, they sound religious! Yet we live and move in a sea of miracle.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
