Honore de Balzac Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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I've noticed that, with many of the authors I like, I tend to think I would dislike them as human beings or that there'd be a healthy amount of debate if I ever did meet them.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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There's no business like show business.
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Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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I am a Bolshevik.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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When I was 12 years old, I went to swim in a lake, and I almost died in that lake because the water was too deep - much deeper than I thought.
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
