Honore de Balzac Quotes
The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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I think places that need the rubber duck the most are the ones in distress.
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I've always followed this page on Instagram called the Sausage Dog Hotel.
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When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
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Social media is a superimposing place where people are usually bragging.
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My father always told me that story was first and foremost. We would watch not just his films but a lot of classic American films. My father was a great David Lean fan, and David Lean's one of my favorite directors. We would discuss films endlessly.
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It was like 'Risky Business' for 10 years. My parents were out of town, they left me a bunch of money, the car, and the house, and I didn't know when they were coming home.
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If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.
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What you collect says so much about who you are.
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I struggle with technology. I think it doesn't like me because I think it knows I don't like it.
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Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.
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There's a social piece to what's going on in the Sugarland world, but we've never been a band that's political, and I maintain that.
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For some time, I thought Apollo 13 was a failure. I was disappointed I didn't get to land on the moon. But actually, it turned out to be the best thing that could have happened.
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Snooki and Honey Boo Boo. These are big celebrities in the U.S. You want to throw up.
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Some people will always be disappointed.
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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
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Living in Los Angeles is pretty cool.
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The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.
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What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question.
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The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
