Pierre Corneille Quotes
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
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The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.
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If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.
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In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.
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It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.
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False news, when combined with social media, can wreak havoc thanks to its potential of reaching millions in a short span. The effects can be quite disturbing.
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It's later than it's ever been.
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It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.
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Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.
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Consciousness is the one thing in this universe that cannot be an illusion.
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I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general.
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If you can depict situations and explore life in a truthful way and explore areas of grey - because that's where the truth lives - and you can do that in an objective way and allow people to take from that what they will, I think it's a satisfying sweet spot with storytelling.
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I often feel intellectually frustrated when I'm in a position where I'm not moving forward; when I'm not enquiring about something.
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I always figured there would be a kid audience and an adult audience, and there is. That's true for 'Hunger Games' and 'Twilight' and 'Harry Potter.' And 'Maximum Ride,' for sure. In particular what happens is a lot of parents share the books with their kids, and the mom has read it, and the kids, and they talk about it.
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I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
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The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
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I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.
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I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.
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I want the Dead Sea, like Masada, to be part of UNESCO's world heritage.
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We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
