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Honore de Balzac Quotes

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.

Honore de Balzac

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: french
Birth: May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

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Love Good Thrive Weeds Degree Weary

I think when people think of something as basic, they think that it's boring.

People Think Boring Something Basic

For many of us, our smartphones have become extensions of our brains - we outsource essential cognitive functions, like memory, to them, which means they soak up much more information than we realize.

Memory Information Become More Up

Actors are supposed to be these runaways that get in a covered wagon filled with hats and tambourines and go from town to town making people smile.

Smile People Hats Go Get Wagon

America cannot function if we are a society fueled by riots.

Society America Cannot Function

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

American Political Guilty Rhetoric

I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.

Stand Up Think Stand Political Now

Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Myself Me Pressure Manager Need Put

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.

Texas Actor Everyone Musician

If you don't travel the world and see as much of it as you can - see different characters in different situations - then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.

Best Travel World Learn You Way

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

Birthday Teen Youth Will Things

I think, when I was a young lawyer starting out, I was so determined to prove that I was as good as the men and that I could be given the same opportunities as the men, and it wouldn't make any difference at all that I was a woman. But actually, looking back on it now, I did do things that I wouldn't recommend to other women at all.

Good Women Men Woman Looking Back

I came from a broken family.

Family Broken I Came Came

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