Honore de Balzac Quotes
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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Science and art are not opposed.
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From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
