Honore de Balzac Quotes
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
Kate Baldwin -
I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
Candice Olson -
Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
Eduardo Chillida -
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
Aaron Paul -
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin -
There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
Carlos Fuentes
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I actually hate shopping.
Kate Bosworth -
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
F. H. Bradley -
English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though I had amazing Math teachers. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
Ian Harding -
Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
Uwe Boll -
Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Karin Slaughter -
'I used to tell everyone I meant to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.'
Banksy
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It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity.... I'm against people taking the Bible absolutely literally, rather than letting some of it be real fantasy, like Jonah... Faith is best expressed in story.
Madeleine L'Engle -
Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
Walt Kelly -
Beauty is something that disappears when you try to define it.
Iain Banks -
Clarke's Law of Revolutionary Ideas: Every revolutionary idea - in science, politics, art, or whatever - seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases:(1) 'It's completely impossible - don't waste my time';(2) 'It's possible, but it's not worth doing';(3) 'I said it was a good idea all along.'
Arthur C. Clarke -
When you say your prayers try to understand
Jon Bon Jovi -
The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.
Kenneth L. Pike
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Modern sport can be an ugly convergence of commerce and celebrity, but it still has the capacity to move a crowd.
Katie Kitamura -
You want to continue with the social safety net: the good, the bad and the ugly parts of that, you have to have a vibrant economy. You have to have growth of the economy.
John Barrasso -
But you are beautiful And you better go show it So go look again You gotta be true to your own If you really wanna go to the top Do you really wanna win Don’t believe in leaving normal Just to satisfy demand ((Beauty in Ugly))
Jason Mraz -
Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.
Honore de Balzac