Pierre Corneille Quotes
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
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I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
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I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
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Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.
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Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.
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I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.
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Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'
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Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart.
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Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.
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My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.
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I know little about the women of my own race...
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When you decide to become an opera singer, it's a commitment that allows nothing else to interfere. Even your family - and I have a young daughter - has to take second place.
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I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
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Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being...It appears only when a man feels and senses what is connected with it.
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I don't know what scared me about Marvin Gaye. I just know that he was scary, and that all of his... his aura was frightening to me. I can't explain why.
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Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
