Pierre Corneille Quotes
L’on peut me réduire à vivre sans bonheur,Mais non pas me résoudre à vivre sans honneur.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.
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The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.
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When we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative.
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Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.
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I choose work with the people I like to work with.
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I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
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The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
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When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable.
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I have a fear of heights and I'm claustrophobic.
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Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.
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When one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.
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L’on peut me réduire à vivre sans bonheur,Mais non pas me résoudre à vivre sans honneur.
