Honore de Balzac Quotes
Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
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Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.
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Everybody in this country who wants to should be able to get as much education as they want. Education is the best resource we have.
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The amount of sleep - the total amount of sleep that you get - starts to decrease the older that we get. I think one of the myths out there is that we simply need less sleep as we age, and that's not true, in fact.
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Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.
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When I see that my geek may have contained some of the best parts of me, when I love and appreciate him, I set my children free to see themselves as lovable however they are.
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I have a world of respect for Congressman Dold and the service he's given to our country.
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Dance has always been the center of who I am. It has given me the inspiration to help other people find a hobby, passion, and activity that fulfills them. It also taught me some of the many skills I need as an entrepreneur: a hard work ethic that takes practice to master and the confidence to persevere through any challenges.
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I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.
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If the Latterday Saints had not abandoned plural marriage, they would have remained a fringe religion and would never have moved into mainstream American culture. Today, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints thrives. It is one of the fastest growing religions in the country and is the most successful American-born religion.
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Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.
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Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.
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In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.
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Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
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I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.
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Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.
