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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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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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
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There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.
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And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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When wishes are few, the heart is happy. When craving ends, there is peace.
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The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.
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Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
