Honore de Balzac Quotes
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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When incomes and bonuses decrease, revenues falter, and businesses stumble, it's more important than ever to give - not necessarily more, but in a way that matters more. When incomes are down and wallets are stretched, the effectiveness of our giving is what really counts.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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The recruit was Sam McCain; in one of our lunch sessions I recalled Sarah O’Connell describing him as more mouth than brain. Unsurprisingly, he’d been in sales most of his life.
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Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.
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Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.
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All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
