Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person?
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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'That's So Raven' was my favorite show growing up! I loved Raven so much! That show is what made me want to be on Disney Channel!
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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The marketplace tells us that good, visceral storytelling has a place. But there are lots of questions about the format that stories take.
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I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They're trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that - allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren't relevant to me at all.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature.
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It is important to remember that if we treat people who could be allies as enemies, we can only alienate them from our cause.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.
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Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim.
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No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.
