Honore de Balzac Quotes
Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong.
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I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
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Women don't seem to think it's good enough; They write about it.
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O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!
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One thing I don't personally like is not having that privacy I used to have. Being able to do whatever I wanted to do without people recognizing me. That makes me watch what I'm doing more carefully. I'm not going to be acting no fool.
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Love is the reduction of the universe to the single being, and the expansion of a single being, even to God.
