Honore de Balzac Quotes
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
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The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
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And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
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Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.
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A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.
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When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.
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Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?
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When I think of the Olympics I only think of good things. I think of what a great event it is and what it has done for me and my career, and changed my personal life, too.
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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.
