Honore de Balzac Quotes
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
Honore de Balzac
Quotes to Explore
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
Eavan Boland
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
Bear Grylls
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
Olivia Hussey
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
Larry David
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
Carine Roitfeld
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
Kate Atkinson
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Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
Camilla Lackberg
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Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.
Walt Handelsman
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
Gary Numan
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When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
Lance Loud
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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.
Jack Nicklaus
