Honore de Balzac Quotes
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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I don't want people to think of me as sexy.
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
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'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.
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If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.
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I can't drink anything but chocolate. I don't even like any milk but chocolate. When I eat cereal, I barely touch the white part.
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You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.
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I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'
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On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.
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By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.
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Skullcrack City messes with your mind the way William Burroughs or a bellyful of hallucinogens will do. I'm a longtime fan of Johnson. A master of derangement, he's been bringing it for years. This time, though, it's different. He's burst into the clear and is taking seven-league strides across the literary landscape.
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I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.
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The origin of every sin of the heart is love of this world.
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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
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An unrenewed mind is a mind that lacks the knowledge of God's Word. A lack of knowledge about the Word keeps us from maturing spiritually.
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I think AT&T should spend a little more time trying to figure out how not to lose net market share and try to slow the bleeding, ... (They should) try to rev up that side of the business without trying to bring in new services. That's still an issue for me as an investor.
