Honore de Balzac Quotes
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
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I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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Well, c'mon, everyone is a Facebook addict!
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Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.
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The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.
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I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do you mean he's dead?' We were in this world he created, and he was gone from the Earth. Yet in those black marks on a white page, his imagination lived on, his voice lived on. That is so miraculous.
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I think a lot of Jews make Israel the centerpiece of their Judaism. It becomes the centerpiece of their Jewish existence and of their faith. I have always felt that that's not for me.
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I had no desire to be a star and a star's responsibility.
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If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
