Honore de Balzac Quotes
There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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It's very difficult, I think, especially on two cellphones, to have a romantic conversation.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
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It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.
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I fooled you. I fooled you. I got pig iron. I got pig iron. I got all pig iron.
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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Like, I mean I don't even know why you girls bother at this point. Like give it up, it's me. I win and you lose.
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Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.
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Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?
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We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.
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I am not a role model.
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DMT raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.
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And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
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Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
