Honore de Balzac Quotes
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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.
Gavin O'Connor
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.
Danger Mouse
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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.
AJ McLean
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I think America is on the right track.
Wayne Allard
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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.
Wendy Kopp
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Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that's a costly investment in your health. But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don't make those investments.
Emily Oster
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My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.
E. L. James
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When you get into any kind of period work, or any kind of prosthetic work, or anything that alters what your 8×10 looks like, it's the joy of escaping and becoming somebody else. And it is definitely freeing.
Scott Bakula
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in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.
Nick Bantock
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Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
Honore de Balzac
