Pierre Corneille Quotes
L’on peut me réduire à vivre sans bonheur,Mais non pas me résoudre à vivre sans honneur.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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 general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.
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What greater challenge today.. ..to disorder and insensitivity; what greater propaganda for integration than this emotionally intense, dramatic division of space? quote in 1943, discussing the art of Piet Mondrian
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My dream role would be a role that is entertaining and 'massy,' and it should be able to make people laugh and cry and make the audience scared of me and then make them fall in love with me again.
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One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.
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Under the Paris agreement, every one of the 147 signatories issues what is called an 'intended nationally determined contribution' (INDC), which amounts to a promise that the nation will take certain actions to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by a certain date.
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Trying to understand fundamental processes that take place as organisms develop and how their various cells interact with one another - one can see what happens with those cells by asking questions about the fundamentals of biology.
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You can have it all, but you can't do it all.
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L’on peut me réduire à vivre sans bonheur,Mais non pas me résoudre à vivre sans honneur.
