Honore de Balzac Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
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My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
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We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
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The talent is always there and art is cyclical. I'm optimistic.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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The law has no power over heroes.
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As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
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There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self.
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Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
