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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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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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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I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
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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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God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
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When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.
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Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.
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If you're lucky enough to work with great actors and creative people, they're always just going to be who they are, so I don't think there's a difference between the Brits and the Americans.
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There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.
