Honore de Balzac Quotes
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The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.
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I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I want to serve the people.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.
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Occasionally, you'll get a 'District 9,' a film that is politically charged, but there is nothing going on beneath the surface with a lot of horror films. They are not about anything.
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Why have one chandelier when you can have two?
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
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Love is an affection which carries the attention of the mind beyond itself, and is the sense of a relation to some fellow creature as to its object.
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Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
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Without electricity, there can be no art.
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Summary of the new physics and the old physics:
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Oh I haven't got a clue what to do with you,Jesus all the things my head is going through.
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Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneration, but no rest.
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That which was at first bound, cast out and rent by many and various beaters will be respected and honoured, and its precepts will be listened to with reverence and love.
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.
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Wasted is when you have a hankering for ice cream.
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We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality.
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When I say things like "I want to build a machine that can be proud of me," that's not just a joke.
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Resignation is a daily suicide.