Honore de Balzac Quotes
The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I've learned never say never.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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I want to have a long career.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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King Agis said, "The Lacedaemonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."
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I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?
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Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.
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The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
