Honore de Balzac Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!
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As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.
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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.
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I want to devour you with my eyes, and tell you over and over that you've never been so beautiful.
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L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
