Honore de Balzac Quotes

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

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• I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

  

  Gary Coleman
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• Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

  

  Harold Bloom
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• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
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• I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
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• She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
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• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
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• Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Quality
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• I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Work
  • Money
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• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
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  • Pretty
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• I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.

  

  Kaskade
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• I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

  

  Adam McKay
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• Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

  

  Adam Brody
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• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Matter
  • Someone
  • Accept

• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
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• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
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• I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Lost

• My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

  

  Jay London
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• Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Good
  • Experience
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• Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.

  

  Patrick Marber
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• You look at Kerry Washington on 'Scandal,' and a lot of the women on that show in general are very strong, and I think we're seeing it more, and I'm excited because when I was doing Dana Gordon on 'Entourage,' there weren't a lot of strong female characters, which is why I think she came out as such a standout character.

  

  Constance Zimmer
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• In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

  

  Kent Haruf
  • Men
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• Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Women
  • Virtues
  • Defects