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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The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.
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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'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
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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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I'm not against gay people.
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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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Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.
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It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'
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I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.
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We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
