Honore de Balzac Quotes
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.
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Sometimes, you know, bad is good.
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I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.
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I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness.
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I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.
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Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump
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Australia is not very exclusive. On the visa application they still ask if you've been convicted of a felony - although they are willing to give you a visa even if you haven't been.
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Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow.
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I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.
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Iniesta - he is the Zinedine Zidane of the team, because he can do whatever you want him to with the ball.
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The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.
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In the ’50s and ’60s there was segregation here in the Bay Area and all over the country. There was a curfew for young blacks my age in the Fillmore district where I lived. It was a disturbing thing. There were civil rights movements here in San Francisco. They would show on the national news the dogs being sicced on the marchers, being sprayed with the hoses, being beaten with the batons.
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I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what they once were in terms of advertisement and book tours.
