Honore de Balzac Quotes
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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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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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
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I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
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When he reached the New World, Cortés burned his ships. As a result his crew was well-motivated.
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I have always liked to get my pictures taken, and I like taking care of my looks. But, I am not one to use beauty products and treatments.
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When I forget that the stars shine in air – When I forget that beauty is in stars – When I forget that love with beauty is – Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
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There are almost no beautiful cities in America, though there are many beautiful parts of cities, and some sections that are glorious without being beautiful, like downtown Chicago. Cities are too big and too rich for beauty; they have outgrown themselves too many times.
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In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Gail Devers -
Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.
