Honore de Balzac Quotes
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.
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When people do things to make your dream come true, you owe them in one way or another. Everyone understands that for every dream that comes true for you, there might not be a dream coming true for someone else. When we trade one wish for another, there's a price to pay. It works like that.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.
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What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.
