Honore de Balzac Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
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I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.
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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
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'Summon up a supper,' he said. 'Oh, I could. On golden plates, if you like. But that’s illusion, and when you eat illusions you end up hungrier than before.'
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I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.
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I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.
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I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college.
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Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.
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We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
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I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.
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It's incredibly important to understand history... when it comes to inequality.
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My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.
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Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique.
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Digital is the only way to get rid of corruption and unaccounted cash.
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In September 2008 - as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and AIG, the world's biggest insurance company, accepted a federal bailout - Senator John McCain of Arizona, in what was widely viewed as a political move, suspended his presidential campaign and called on Obama to rush back to Washington for a bipartisan meeting at the White House.
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Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.
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Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.
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You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
