Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
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I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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In the evening you hear the scream of bats,
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.
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We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.
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Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity.
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For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.
