Honore de Balzac Quotes
When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
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I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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'A Different World' didn't have the blazing success that 'Cosby' had, but it was on for seven seasons, and we got a lot of awards, and a lot of faces came out of that show and have had great careers.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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When I was a kid, I never thought about anything. Never had to think about where I was going to school or what I was going to do. I just lived minute to minute.
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Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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Not being allowed to use the Internet is kind of like not being allowed to use a telephone.
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Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.
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Be yourself. Don't try too hard - it shows.
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When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?
