Honore de Balzac Quotes
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We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I'm a guy who loves my family, and we're probably only going to have a couple of more babies. I have the rest of my life to play the British Open.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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By 1988, I was living in New York myself.
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.
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Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
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I think America is on the right track.
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We've done a lot of research on the characteristics of our teachers who are the most successful. The most predictive trait is still past demonstrated achievement, and all selection research basically points to that.
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When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
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When I wake up every morning, I smile and say, 'Thank you.' Because out of my window I can see the mountains, then go hiking with my dog and share her bounding joy in the world.
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In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.
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I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
