Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.
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Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.
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What soilders whey-face? The English for so please you. Take thy face hence.
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If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
