Honore de Balzac Quotes
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In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
Vikram Seth -
It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Symbols have a reach and a roundness that goes beyond their literal and practical meaning. They are the rich concepts under which the mind gathers many particulars into one name, and many instances into one general induction.
Jacob Bronowski -
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
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My productivity is overwhelming!
Jason Statham -
If you're in a situation where your effective tax rate is so much lower than any other company, then obviously you have a much better position when it comes to compete on prices and everything else.
Margrethe Vestager -
All night I lay awake beside you, Leaning on my elbow, watching your Sleeping face, that face whose purity Never ceases to astonish me.
Kenneth Rexroth -
I think the lack of critical engagement with the food that we eat demonstrates the extent to which the commodity form has become the primary way in which we perceive the world.
Angela Davis -
There's nothing that annoys me more than people being horrible to my mates.
Louis Tomlinson One Direction -
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Barack Obama
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It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen.
Barack Obama -
Proper praying is like a person who wanders through a field gathering flowers-one by one, until they make a beautiful bouquet. In the same manner, a person must gather each letter, each syllable, to form them into words of prayer.
Nachman of Breslov -
With everything you're letting go, I'm sure it's going to have a different value to you. And every time you let go you're going to be a different age or there's going to be different circumstances. So I think the best way to do it is to simply wish the best for that thing.
Jason Mraz -
Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.
Preston Sturges -
I don't pretend to understand him, but I can enjoy him as a poet and comedian. I liked the idea of the eternal return. Sometimes I think that being on tour year after year is an eternal return; you play a certain club in Copenhagen and then ten years later you are back again, traveling the same roads year after year.
Dean Wareham -
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.
Elvis Costello
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Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.
Emily James Smith Putnam -
Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
Jackie Collins -
They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.
Yasunari Kawabata -
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore de Balzac