Pierre Corneille Quotes
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The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
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I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or what to say. It's a very embarrassing situation.
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A government should not function based on the pressures of some or others. It should try to adapt a mix of measures that fits every context and generates the appropriate steps forward.
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It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
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I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.
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There are amendments never offered, there are bills never heard, that are basically killed because of the process.
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Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
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What we do tomorrow is more important than what we did yesterday.
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To innovate is not to reform.
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I've been told that N.Y. in the spring is pretty special.
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I did a movie 'I Love You, Man' and it got great reviews; it was very enjoyable.
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KING: You're an outspoken supporter of Israel. You and Bill Bennett co-authored an op-ed piece on the subject, responding to a letter from a group of prominent Evangelical Christians who urged George W. Bush to employ an even handed policy toward Israel and Palestine. You don't want an even handed policy?
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If I cannot add to my own low level of understanding, I could ill afford to try to raise that of others, seeing that it belongs to our Creator and Lord to give much or little.
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People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just found out about you!' Part of me is happy, and part of me is, like, Where the hell have you been?'
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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.
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In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
