Honore de Balzac Quotes
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.Honore de Balzac
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
Karen Thompson Walker -
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
Fran Drescher -
When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
Daisaku Ikeda -
An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.
Fernando Botero -
In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.
Katha Pollitt -
Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
Naomi Wolf
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Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.
Danger Mouse -
All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.
Magic Johnson -
We live in diverse communities with all sorts of people from all sorts of different backgrounds. The more our entertainment can be a reflection of the world we live in, the better it is for all of us.
Mahershala Ali -
We travel a lot and don't get enough time to spend with our family, and so we have to take our pictures, videos, also bother about things like which are the HD quality phones. So I'm very much a part of these typical things.
Yami Gautam -
I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.
Lake Bell -
Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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When I grow up I wanna be like Omar
Stevie Wonder -
Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!
Jack Layton -
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.
Bette Midler -
Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.
Oswald Chambers -
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.
Walker Percy -
The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.
Barnett Newman
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We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.
Richard Adams -
I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
Vanilla Ice -
When you're not allowed to stay up late, the secret is to just wake up really, really early.
Bill Amend -
We're confident (the state board) will uphold the elementary appeal and it will be a good way to win the trust of the district.
Doug Jackson Ambrosia -
While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.
Russell Baker -
The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.
Honore de Balzac