Honore de Balzac Quotes
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I was raised doing martial arts.
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Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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I got a big mouth.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
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I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
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Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental.
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When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army.
