Honore de Balzac Quotes
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.Honore de Balzac
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.
D'Angelo -
I'm very ambitious, despite all the challenges I face in the streets.
Dana Hussein -
The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.
Anne Graham Lotz -
I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue.
David Hyde Pierce -
Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.
James J. Gibson
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More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.
Martin Gore Depeche Mode -
No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.
Ellen DeGeneres -
The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.
Kevin McCloud -
You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.
Garry Winogrand -
You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.
Arthur Laffer -
No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life." "Why?" he asked, opening both his eyes. "Because sometimes it's either laugh or cry. I prefer laugh. How about you?
P. C. Cast
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In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
William James -
The noble must make humility his root.
Lao Tzu -
Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.
John Milton -
The fame of surgeons resembles the fame of actors, who live only during their lifetime and whose talent is no longer appreciable once they have disappeared.
Honore de Balzac -
The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry.
Tacitus -
Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.
Shirley Chisholm
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Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.
Claude Monet -
As long as you're willing to be called a fool, you can create anything, do anything, be anything.
Anna Olson -
When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.
Benjamin Wittes -
Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.
Honore de Balzac