Honore de Balzac Quotes

We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

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• I am surrounded by great people.

  

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• The glass is always half full: I have no time for anything negative - and actually, I've bought crystals for all my team, so they all carry crystals as well.

  

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• We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

  

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• I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

  

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• I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

  

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• My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.

  

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• Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.

  

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• I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.

  

  M. C. Gainey
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• Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

  

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• The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.

  

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• Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
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• There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

  

  Salvador Dali
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• What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.

  

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• I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

  

  Jack Valenti
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• When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.

  

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• I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.

  

  Parker Posey
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• I came to you one rainless August night. You taught me how to live without the rain. You are thirst and thirst is all I know. You are sand, wind, sun, and burning sky, The hottest blue. You blow a breeze and brand Your breath into my mouth. You reach—then bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. You wrap your name tight around my ribs And keep me warm. I was born for you. Above, below, by you, by you surrounded. I wake to you at dawn. Never break your Knot. Reach, rise, blow, Sálvame, mi dios, Trágame, mi tierra. Salva, traga, Break me, I am bread. I will be the water for your thirst.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Night
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  • Thirst

• I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
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• Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
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• Each human life hypothetically saved by implementing these [radiation] regulations costs about $2.5 billion. Such costs are absurd and immoral, especially when compared to the costs of saving lives by immunization against measles, diphtheria and pertussis, which in developing countries range between $50 and $99 per one human life saved.

  

  Zbigniew Jaworowski
  • Life
  • Country
  • Cost

• We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Labor
  • Cost
  • Attach