Honore de Balzac Quotes
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.
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I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
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From caring comes courage.
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I'm hoping I'll eventually get to be a beauty blogger myself because I do my own makeup, and I have for years.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
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When in our days Religion is made a political engine, she exposes herself to having her sacred character forgotten. The most tolerant become intolerant towards her. Believers, who believe something else besides what she teaches, retaliate by attacking her in the very sanctuary itself.
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We're going to have another rude awakening, a war or depression where people are going to have to value one another again and not value money and winning alone. On the political environment we now have a President who likes winning and money and he represents aspects of the spectacle we were alluding to, and yet he's my President and I am for anyone who is my President. I'm an American and yet it's the style thing. We’ll see what happens. He’d like to see things work well and trying to get us to that place as a country.
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Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.
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At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
