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.Honore de Balzac
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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.
Walter Savage Landor -
I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
Gary Larson -
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.
Abdullah Ibrahim -
Im not revolted by Washington.
Kevin Spacey -
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive
Chuck Berry -
I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.
Karrine Steffans -
I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.
Alexander McQueen -
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.
Umberto Eco -
Perfection is a disease of a nation.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.
Kami Garcia
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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.
Art Blakey -
The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
Jay-Z -
My imagination creates my reality.
Walt Disney -
Every time we deny ourselves in order to serve someone else, we grow in Christ.
David Jeremiah -
All empires are created of blood and fire.
Pablo Escobar -
To travel is to possess the world.
Elias Burton Holmes
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If food is processed - like canned or frozen - you can reduce the risks of pathogens.
Steve Ells -
A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don't know whether that's possible.
Barack Obama -
Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are.
William Hague -
There is much made in the psychological literature of the effects of divorce on children, particularly as it comes to their own marriages, lo those many years later. We have always wondered why there is not more research done on the children of happy marriages. Our parents' love is not some grand passion, there are no swoons of lust, no ball gowns and tuxedos, but here is the truth: they have not spent a night apart since the day they married.How can we ever hope to find a love to live up to that?
Eleanor Brown -
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.
Honore de Balzac