Honore de Balzac Quotes

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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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I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

Jimi Hendrix

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Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.

Andrew Weil

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I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.

John Catsimatidis

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I'm in favor of inequality if it comes about from people making great innovations that make us all better off. And I think those people deserve to be rich. But the people who get rich by lobbying the Congress to give them special protections that come out of the hides of the workers seems to be a bad idea.

Angus Deaton

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President Obama likes to talk about winning the future. But someone needs to tell him: You can't win the prosperity of tomorrow if you're mortgaging it to pay for the big government programs of today.

John Thune

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I don't like hype cluttering art.

Skrillex

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I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.

Trevor Phillips

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I think Canadians are great satirists because we sit in the middle of these two giants: Great Britain and the U.S.

Martin Short

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If I ended up having a big name, I'm still going to keep that fire because that's what just drives the great ones.

Mike Daniels

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It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome.

Deborah Cox

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I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war.

Tim O'Brien

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One of my favorite things to cook is fondue. I'm Swiss. It's a great social meal.

Ryan Seacrest

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