Pierre Corneille Quotes
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The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
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Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
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My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
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Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
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If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. They're very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.
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I think people think I'm a lot younger than I am because of how I look on screen.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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Anonymity would be a fantastic umbrella. I don't like intrusion.
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I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.
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It used to be you wanted to marry up.
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Now, two years have passed and the situation is completely different: no one wants to organise this match.
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Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania – that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so.
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The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
