Pierre Corneille Quotes
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
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If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.
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No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
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The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
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What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.
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I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so it would be fun to do a romantic comedy and just have a good laugh.
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Não tenho ambições nem desejosSer poeta não é uma ambição minhaÉ a minha maneira de estar sozinho.
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What I am is what I am. Are you what you are - or what?
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All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work-and therefore as dads.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
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The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
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My baby love and I are ENGAGED!!!
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Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.
