Honore de Balzac Quotes
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
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Im not revolted by Washington.
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Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive
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I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.
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I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.
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I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
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Perfection is a disease of a nation.
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Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
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We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.
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Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.
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The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
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My imagination creates my reality.
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Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.
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All empires are created of blood and fire.
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... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.
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Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
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Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make up a personality.
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And what delights can equal those That stir the spirit's inner deeps, When one that loves but knows not, reaps A truth from one that loves and knows?
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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
