Pierre Corneille Quotes
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Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
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When everyone is running the machine, and it's all working, there's a tendency to look at the short term and focus on incremental opportunities and not look ahead to the really big opportunities.
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I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
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I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.
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I used to like John McCain, too, but I must admit that was because he was bucking his party to do things I agreed with. I would not have had that reaction if, say, Bernie Sanders decided to rebel out of principle and support privatizing Social Security.
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Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
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I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.
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In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
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Moving from Rome to Brussels was hard.
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I'd wear all APC if I could afford it and wasn't embarrassing to go head-to-toe in one brand.
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I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles.
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I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.
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I think part of being masculine is not needing to prove it and not needing to answer for it.
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An accent always helps me ground a character. It also helps to remind me what age I'm playing.
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The first 'Bad Company' was a kind of reaction to the Vietnam war - or at least a reaction to how Vietnam had entered the cultural life through films and books.
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In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.
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Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
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Rome used to have good public art in ancient times. There is nothing like West of Rome in Italy.
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
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A RIPE EXPERIENCE OF GERMAN pillows in country places leads me to urge the intending traveller to be sure to take his own. The native pillows are mere bags, in which feathers may have been once. There is no substance in them at all. They are of a horrid flabbiness. And they have, of course, the common drawback of all public pillows, they are haunted by the nightmares of other people. A pillow, it is true, takes up a great deal of room in one’s luggage.
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Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.
