Honore de Balzac Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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My mom and I are very close.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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As an actor, it's better to just be more loose and give yourself over. That's always fun. It's fun to just let go and be somebody else.
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To say that you have to carry to term and look after a child for the rest of your life is to say I force you, legally, to love someone. It's like saying, you know, you have to go and love another - you have to go - you know, you have to go marry someone. It's like an arranged marriage.
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The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.
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I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.
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I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.