Honore de Balzac Quotes
Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.
Honore de Balzac
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
Ike Barinholtz
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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
Olivia Thirlby
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
Gary Wolf
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
Mahatma Gandhi
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
L. Sprague de Camp
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
Sam Simon
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
Rahul Dravid
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
Oona Chaplin
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
Barbara Kruger
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
Ian McLagan
Small Faces
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Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
Zhang Xin
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
Cameron Winklevoss
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
Halle Berry
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After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
Vernon L. Smith
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In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
Caitlin Moran
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
Naftali Bennett
