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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The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.
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Terrorists act as they do because they don't have great power at their easy disposal. The result is that they rely upon the ability to exploit the mistakes of others.
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It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.
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The death toll associated with the invasion and occupation of Iraq is probably about 100,000 people, and may be much higher.
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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.
