Honore de Balzac Quotes

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

Honore de Balzac

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• I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

  

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• In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

  

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• I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.

  

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• One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

  

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• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

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• I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

  

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• We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?

  

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• Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.

  

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• I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.

  

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• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

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• Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.

  

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• If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.

  

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• Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

  

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• I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.

  

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• In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

  

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• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

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• The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.

  

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• I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

  

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• My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

  

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• My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.

  

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• The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts in the fall and scold all year long; bobcats track the snowy lake in winter; deer browse the willow shoots in spring. Humans are but intruders who have presumed the right to be observers, and who, out of observation, find understanding.

  

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• Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Life
  • Society
  • Suicide