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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• 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.

  

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• I'm very ambitious, despite all the challenges I face in the streets.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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
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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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?

  

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• In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.

  

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• The noble must make humility his root.

  

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• Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

  

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• 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.

  

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• The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.

  

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• When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.

  

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• Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.

  

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• Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
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• You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere.

  

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  • Travel
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• Discouragement is of all ages: In youth it is a presentiment, in old age a remembrance.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Remembrance
  • Discouragement
  • Presentiment