Honore de Balzac Quotes
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
Olivia Thirlby -
I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
Nancy Lublin -
I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet -
It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.
Weili Dai -
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
H. L. Mencken -
I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
Harrison Ford
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
Barry Unsworth -
Hemingway was a jerk.
Harold Robbins -
I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
Narendra Modi -
No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.
Gail Sheehy -
I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.
Olympia Dukakis -
I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
Rachel Johnson
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
Olivia Munn -
I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.
Tamsin Greig -
That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
Ramakrishna -
It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
Barack Obama -
There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.
Samuel Johnson
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I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?
Lloyd Bridges -
Growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I felt with The Beatles legacy that there was pressure on me to do music, and while I always loved music and it was always around me at home, I thought about doing other things.
James McCartney -
The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.
John Polkinghorne -
People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
Honore de Balzac