Honore de Balzac Quotes
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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The best part of owning a blog is the fact that you are in control. You can write about anything you want to write about. You can decide how your blog looks. You can decide who to target. You can decide how to monetize the blog. You have full control!
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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There's nothing harder than defining oneself.
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I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.
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My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.
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I've spent many a long flight talking to flight attendants, trying to understand what kind of employment experience underlies such a consistent lack of concern for customers.
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If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion
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I didn't grow up in a creative environment. It was very boring town, boring everything. You go to school and you basically hate all the other kids because you don't understand them or what it's all about. At the same time I'm happy for that because I became very withdrawn and when you become withdrawn you develop your own bizarre-o personality.
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Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
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The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
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When you got a great cast around you, it makes the story easier to tell, to be honest.
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
