Honore de Balzac Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
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I love recording music.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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I'm giving my fans the songs that they want to hear from me. Why do we love to hear ourselves being downgraded. Why do we love to hear the negative situations that we see in our lives daily? I'm not trying to make sense of it, I'm not giving any solutions, I'm just tossing the question.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!
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He who best knows the world will love it least.
