Pierre Corneille Quotes
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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Our priorities are out of whack. We spend too much to protect birds and fish at the expense of people.
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I didn't wake up and decide to become an activist. But you couldn't help notice the inequities, the injustices. It was all around you.
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Image means a lot. It is everything in the business that we are in.
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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
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My husband and I vowed that after we married and settled down, we would become foster parents - a vow we kept and one that has enriched our lives greatly.
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I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.
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The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.
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But the fall of Ramadi has galvanized the Iraqi government. So, with the additional steps I ordered last month, we’re speeding up training of ISIL forces, including volunteers from Sunni tribes in Anbar Province.
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Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.
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We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Bangkok is a toilet without a flush.
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I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don't believe that we're supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God's blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that's how God leads us.
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I want to see and taste and experience it all, I am curious by nature. I would actually really love to go to New Zealand.
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I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.
