Honore de Balzac Quotes
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.
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'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
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I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.
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If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
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I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
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I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.
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I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.
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You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.
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i have no regrets. Regret only makes wrinkles.
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Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.
