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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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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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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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
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The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
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I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.
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The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.
