Honore de Balzac Quotes
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I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.
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I love the game of hockey. I love being part of it. I think I know a lot about the game.
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As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
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The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
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I'm not possessive, I'm caring... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.
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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
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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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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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It certainly lit our fire a little bit. It certainly made us appreciate what we have.
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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
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Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.
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Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode on which the poem is based in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.
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We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.
