Honore de Balzac Quotes

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Honore de Balzac

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• I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
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• I have fabulous children.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
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• I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

  

  Larry David
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• Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.

  

  Paris Hilton
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• You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.

  

  Felix de Weldon
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• Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

  

  Naya Rivera
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• The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

  

  Sally Quinn
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• I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.

  

  Imelda May
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• When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
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• I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

  

  Fiona Shaw
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• I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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• I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.

  

  Faith Prince
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• I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.'

  

  E. L. James
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• I'm not an over-dominant person. I don't go around and expect everyone to listen to me the whole time. But I like to be in control of my life because I have so many people around me, I can get pulled in one direction and then the other. If I don't have any say in it, then I end up just losing complete control and I don't like the idea of that. I could actually lose my identity.

  

  Prince William
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• It's a full moon here tonight, which makes me think of you. Because, I know that no matter what I am doing or where I am, this moon will always be the same size as yours, half a world away.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
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• We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.

  

  Jaromir Jagr
  • Different
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• I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Life
  • Believe
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• It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Course
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  • Profitable

• All human power is a compound of time and patience.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Patience
  • Human Power
  • Compound