Honore de Balzac Quotes
There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.
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I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
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And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
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My doctors say I am very healthy.
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Modern loneliness is an extraverted loneliness, in which the person is surrounded by many people and partakes of much communication but feels unrecognized and more alone and, although connected technically, isolated and even estranged emotionally.
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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
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The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.
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There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
