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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So when you Hillary Clinton tried to act holier than thou, it really doesn't work. It really doesn't.
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I always felt like I could be funny, but there was a part of me that always judged actors so harshly... I thought all actors were dumb-that they must have serious emotional problems. Even if they don't, that's the perception I had of them. I didn't want anyone to see me that way.
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I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
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I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.
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Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.
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Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth.
