Honore de Balzac Quotes

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

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• I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
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• The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

  

  Rafael Correa
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• I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

  

  Gary Bauer
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• The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Nature
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• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  

  Ted Turner
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• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
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• I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • House
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• It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Beginning
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• Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

  

  Ja Rule
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• I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate.

  

  Karen Hughes
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• The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
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• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
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• I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.

  

  Sam Bradford
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• If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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• It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

  

  Pasquier Quesnel
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• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

  

  Imelda Marcos
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• There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Art
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• When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • War
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• I ain't mad ma, see you on ya bummy swag I'm in that money green Jag, lot of money bags

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Money
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• I have help, but I'm very hands-on in everything I do. I do normal stuff, I'm a normal mother and I'm a very hardworking woman and I have hundreds of products and many businesses that I do.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
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• Yes, I will probably be that way. I am sure I will. I think that it shouldn't stop you. I think of course my life is going to change, and I definitely will make sacrifices, but you know, I think I will be able to bring hopefully my little rider with me.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
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• The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

  

  Honore de Balzac
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