Honore de Balzac Quotes
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.
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When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.
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I have not spoken to him directly. Here's the reason. Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he's gonna say all the right things to me. I'm not interested in words. I'm interested in actions.
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...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'
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Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.
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Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.
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I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected.
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My goal was always to make the girl look real and look beautiful. It didn't matter how much makeup. Sometimes it was none at all.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Somewhere there's a happy harborfar from the storm.Out where the sun shines there is someoneI'm meant to adore,and I know the day I find her,I'll smile once more.
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Donald Trump has every intention to repeal the Affordable Care Act, as much because it's known as Obamacare [as because he wants] to try and deconstruct the legacy of President Obama. But that has implications that mean women who were accessing family planning and contraception as a preventative service with no co-pay will lose access to that coverage. We [will] only see an exacerbation of the things we were engaged in trying to prevent - like unplanned pregnancy and the need for abortion, which creates a societal dilemma.
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
