Honore de Balzac Quotes
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
Quotes to Explore
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.
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There's no family in America that can celebrate a victory better than the Harbaughs. You'll never hear more laughter, more storytelling, or more embellishment.
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
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Someday, I'd like to sit down with a small group of people, in a relaxed environment, and make a film that feels more independent. That way we can be a little more free in terms of storytelling and subject.
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The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting of visas should be taken away from the State Department. For the granting of visas - especially today, when terrorism is such a complex threat - is far closer to being a law-enforcement function.
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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
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Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
