Honore de Balzac Quotes
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
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I have no idea what 'method actor' means.
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My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.
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The flak is always the heaviest closest to the target.
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And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.
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Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.
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Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
