Honore de Balzac Quotes
Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11 felt to me like a piece of the plot; the novel wasn't wrestling with what 9/11 meant. And 'Netherland' felt the same way. I liked both books a lot but I don't see them as 9/11 novels.
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If you refrain from judging your worst enemy, his children will come to your side. What more severe judgment could come upon an enemy than this?
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My mother grew up with each of her children - whatever your age, that's the age she'd be when she listened to your stories. She never belittled our problems. It made for something permanent and reliable.
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I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'
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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
