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.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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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.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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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.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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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.
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The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'
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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.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.
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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.
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
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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.
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I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
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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.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...
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When we are invited to a banquet, we take what is set before us; and were one to call upon his host to set fish upon the table or sweet things, he would be deemed absurd. Yet in a word, we ask the Gods for what they do not give; and that, although they have given us so many things! (35).
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By nature servile, people attempt at first glance to find signs of good breeding in the appearance of those who occupy more exalted stations.
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Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
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The record proves that in peaceful commerce the combined efforts of our countries can produce outstanding results. Our trade with each other is far greater than that of any other two nations on earth.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
