Pierre Corneille Quotes
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I trust no one totally.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.
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I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.
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I love to work with performers that are very different to me.
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You need to know when to surrender the album.
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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
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We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
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Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.
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I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.
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Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.
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Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.
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Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.
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The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
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At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue.
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I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.
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Visca Barcelona, Visca Catalunya and Visca Argentina, motherfuckers!
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I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.
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Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed.
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Comme nos intérêts, nos sentiments diffèrent.
