Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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I am someone who isn't always perfect.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.
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The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.
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Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.
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Nobody walks this earth thinking he's better than I think I am - I think I'm great. At the same time, it's so obvious to me that I'm nobody.
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Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it ... Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edge of the senses... deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth -- reflecting on itself and through itself, filtering the light. At such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere, by repute. Yesterday was blue, like smoke.
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Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.
