Honore de Balzac Quotes
Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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I am healthy and happy.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
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I didn't really come from money. So I wanted my thesis show to grab as much attention as possible.
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Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again.
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Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
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There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.
