Honore de Balzac Quotes
When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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Although the pineapple had been widely disseminated for centuries among the native peoples of South and Central America, it didn't figure in European history until 1493.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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I pack on mass quickly when I lift.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.
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The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.
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If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. It's 17 hours of straight flying from London. It's very far away, and sometimes you feel as if you're on another planet. But I like that. Also, that's ideal for writing.
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Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
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When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.
