Honore de Balzac Quotes
Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.Honore de Balzac
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
T. D. Jakes -
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.
Samuel Beckett -
I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
Fran Drescher -
You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.
Valerie Simpson -
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.
Tanith Lee -
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.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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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.
P. T. Barnum -
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.
Olivier Theyskens -
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.
Maurice Hinchey -
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.
Matthew Walker -
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.
Chris Milk -
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.
Kenny Loggins
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I have a world of respect for Congressman Dold and the service he's given to our country.
Brad Schneider -
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.
Payal Kadakia -
I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.
Keith Jarrett -
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.
David Ebershoff -
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.
Martha Plimpton -
Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.
Lisa Lutz
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Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
Leon Trotsky -
I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.
Simon Sinek -
I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.
Michael Hintze -
We took our eye off the ball as a company.
William Clay Ford, Jr. -
Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.
Honore de Balzac