Honore de Balzac Quotes
Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.Honore de Balzac
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
Bear Grylls -
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
Yoko Ono -
I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
Nathan Fillion -
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel -
I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.
J. B. Pritzker
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
Aaron Copland -
What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
T. C. Boyle -
In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
Takashi Murakami -
I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
Ram Charan -
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.
Walter Mosley -
I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
Caity Lotz -
Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
Vanessa Paradis -
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
Imelda Marcos -
There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
Vince Gilligan -
I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.
Sam Shepard -
I grew up admiring Ronald Reagan and Vice President Bush, and if I were old enough, I would have voted for 41. I was glad he won.
Dana Perino
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Coach Knapp is a tremendous quarterbacks coach.
Brock Osweiler -
The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.
Alexander Payne -
Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.
Lady Hester Stanhope -
I'd like to get some new clothes, but I can't find a Big and Short store.
Jack Roy -
Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.
Honore de Balzac