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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But what is clear about pain universally is this: To the extent that we are motivated to get on with life, we seem to be able to tolerate more pain; in other words, our threshold seems to increase. Conversely, to the extent that we are unmotivated to get out of our chair, our threshold seems to go down.
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I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was 'I don't belong here.' Then I said, 'I'm here; let's get on with it.'
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Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.
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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
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Love is not a business. It's not a transaction. It's not an exchange or something you get for doing something it's not a trade. It's a gift!
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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.
