Honore de Balzac Quotes
A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
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I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
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I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
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I consider myself pro-life, as I accept that the unborn is a human life with rights, and I do not support abortion on request or on demand.
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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.
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A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.
