Honore de Balzac Quotes
Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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There is always pressure in football.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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'LazyTown' is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it 'go.' The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.
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I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.
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I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
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Dungy, head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, has long believed that he, his staff and players should be as devoted to family time as they are to playing time, as focused on giving to charities as they are to taking the ball away from opponents.
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Kings stand more in need of the company of the intelligent than the intelligent do of the society of kings.
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I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!
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Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.
