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 like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.
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I'm the kind of cat that can finish three songs in a day. Two or three songs in a day. If my voice is up to it and I feel up to it, I can finish two or three songs in a day.
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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If climate change drove the megafauna extinct, then this presents yet another reason to worry about what we are doing to global temperatures. If, on the other hand, people were to blame—and it seems increasingly likely that they were—then the import is almost more disturbing. It would mean that the current extinction event began all the way back in the middle of the last ice age. It would mean that man was a killer—to use the term of art an “overkiller”—pretty much right from the start.
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In recounting our woes, we often soothe them.
