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Honore de Balzac Quotes

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Honore de Balzac

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Power Action Political Possible

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.

Time Bird Early Phone Quiet Begin

There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I learned by the seat of my pants. Spending 17 years as an astronaut, I learned the NASA formalism of systems engineering as if my life depended on it. Literally.

John M. Grunsfeld

Life Science Perspective My Life Get

I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.

Leader Gay Movement Rights Been

As a genre, the noir of post-World War II was based on characters who were weak or repellent, bound to let down us and themselves.

War Down Weak Let Down Us Who

I feel like the thing that motivates me is not making the Olympic team. If I'm having a rough day, I think about how bad I want it.

Day Me Team Think Feel Bad

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

Humor Personality Better Sarcastic

When the first 'Hellboy' series came out, in the same batch of fan mail I got a letter from somebody from the Church of Satan, and I got a letter from a minister, and they both liked it. And I thought, 'What am I doing that I'm making both these guys happy?'

Happy Thought Church Doing Satan

As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the feet of those in power, I feel plumb discouraged about the future of journalism.

Future Power Kiss Feet Feel Survey

Even if I'm talking about something that's negative, I look at it as putting my mistakes out there for people to learn from it.

Mistakes People Negative Learn Look

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

Best Stupid Attention Student Paying

The truth is, every movie is a message movie. It's just that most movies have messages that are in lock step with the status quo.

Truth Step Truth Is Movies Status

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

Leadership Home Great Time War

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