Honore de Balzac Quotes
For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
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I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the stories others told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I want to write against that.
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Eating Paleo just leans you down and slims you up and takes that little layer of fat and water-weight right off your body.
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We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.
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I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.
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Conservative women often make the case that 'all issues are women's issues,' and are sometimes derided by those on the Left when they do so.
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For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.
