Honore de Balzac Quotes
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.
Quotes to Explore
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Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.
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Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.
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Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.
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My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'
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To confess ignorance is often wiser than to beat about the bush with a hypothetical diagnosis.
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The fact I wasn't getting off made me realize that I really had to take a hard look at it and at the type of music that I played, which ranges from ballads to country type stuff to rock and rhythm 'n' blues. It takes in a wider spectrum.
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That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.
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Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.
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Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
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Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.
