Pierre Corneille Quotes
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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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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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They have done so much day in and day out and I want to thank all my friends and family, particularly my mother, who was born before women could vote, and is watching her daughter on this stage tonight.
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I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
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This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.
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I tried to tie my heart down, board up all the windows. Oh, but it’s too late now. I let you get too close.
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
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I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't know what it would be like but I think it would be a rather troublesome distraction to have such a lot of dominating presences, as you call them, about. Fortunately we weren't bothered by each other.
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It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.
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Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
