Honore de Balzac Quotes
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.Honore de Balzac
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Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
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.
Sam Smith -
My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
Aaron Paul -
I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
Damien Chazelle -
The army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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.
Octavia E. Butler
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
Fat Joe -
We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
Ian Williams Battles -
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.
Parminder Nagra -
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.
Fatema Mernissi -
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.
Laura Dern -
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.
Sam Kean
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We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
Warren Rudman -
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.
Tadanobu Asano -
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.
H. G. Bissinger -
I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
Adam McKay -
Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
Garth Brooks -
In western countries, there are roles written for older actors. Films are made on them, including love stories.
Om Puri
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As a child, I could beat most kids in sprints, but overall, wrestling was the most natural sport for me. In fact, I was a pretty good high school wrestler. I was unusually quick and strong.
Henry Paulson -
Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance. It is nothing jointed; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life. Source of the expression 'stream of consciousness'.
William James -
I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years.
Steve Buscemi -
My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.
Honore de Balzac