Pierre Corneille Quotes
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
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I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate.
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I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
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Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
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The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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I am following a particular diet, and it requires me to not just eat right but also at the right time. So, I carry food from home.
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I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.
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If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
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Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
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It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.
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'I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going to be bonnets and butter churns.'
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When I'm acting I don't sing, and when I'm recording I'm not acting.
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We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to my baby in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye.
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Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line.
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Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
