Pierre Corneille Quotes
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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With Scarlett Johansson, I always thought she was pretty, but then when I heard her sing, there was just something about her voice that made her really, really attractive to me. And I think she would be fun to hang out with.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.
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There’s a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted. (11 May 1943)
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Sometimes, rehearsals are not worth it if you do not have an accurate cast, and that is one of the most difficult parts about a film.
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While there's life, there's fear.
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If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.
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I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.
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The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.
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Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar.
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I measure success depending on the brands that come to you, the opportunities that you get, also the feedback that you get from people.
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You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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Le sujet d'une belle tragédie doit n'être pas vraisemblable.
