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've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
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At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because 'American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years. So that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.
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There have been rumors and rumors and rumors about my love life. That's the one area that I really like to hold close to my heart.
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I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
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No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.
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We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
