Honore de Balzac Quotes
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We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.
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When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.
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The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
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My first year with Gothenburg was the most carefree because I was playing on a middle-of-the-table team in Sweden. It was a lot less of the global attention.
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It's a big chip on my shoulder that I have not been to any of his parties - P. Diddy, Diddy Puff. But he was super nice to me. And he does look sharp, that guy. Doesn't ever go wrong with a suit.
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Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.
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You don't want to have a character say what's bothering him; you want to define characters by action.
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'Mad Men' is celebrating a time that no longer exists.
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Bullfighters are Seville's heroes.
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I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.
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Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.
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Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.
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I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.
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It was a nice day, and I don't mean that it was sunny either. It was humid and not too cool, like winter was getting annoyed with itself and wanted it to be spring just as much as everyone else.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable from the multitudes that form what is commonly referred to as 'the masses,' but it simultaneously assigns him a group identity based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, etc., to highlight differences within the masses.
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I think I'm a pretty right down the middle guy. I just think that's kind of who I am. I'm not affraid of my own journey.
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When we look at women, we have to look at the significance of their work in a different way from the way we look at it with men. Women have more often worked within the home, working equally as hard, I would argue, but not always out there where they're counted, not always up there in the labor unions, certainly not in leadership positions.
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When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.
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I spend most of my time in my head. You can always work out solutions and satisfactions there. Maybe you can't actually bring them about, but there's usually a pleasant pillow of time between imagining you can, and realizing you cannot.
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For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.
