Honore de Balzac Quotes
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.
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People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.
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Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
