Honore de Balzac Quotes
The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.Honore de Balzac
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
Rafael Palmeiro -
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
Karl Kraus -
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 think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
Oscar Levant -
I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
Randall Munroe -
Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
Nancy Lublin -
Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
Ted Allen -
At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
Haile Gebrselassie -
My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.
Sam Brownback -
I'm a 'Harry Potter' fan, a 'Twilight' fan, and I think 'The Hunger Games' surpasses them all.
Malese Jow -
I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
Jacki Weaver
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Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.
C. Robert Kehler -
What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future.
Dana Brunetti -
Man is a tool-making animal.
Benjamin Franklin -
I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.
Mark Messier -
The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.
Christina Romer -
I don't think my natural talent is much different to the other gymnasts. It is a matter of how I train and how I think about my training. I also give a lot of thought to my routines.
Kohei Uchimura
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Masculine people, by their nature, tend to want to make everything into a journey with a goal.
Arjuna Ardagh -
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Oprah Winfrey -
A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.
E. B. White -
I myself have been in therapy. Repeatedly.
Amy Brenneman -
My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.
Cleopatra -
The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.
Honore de Balzac