Pierre Corneille Quotes
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I never was a very good singer.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
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All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.
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I've had the same friends I've always had. I mean, I've lost a few over the years.
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Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.
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That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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First one beam, then another, then A thousand are radiant in the sky. Each is both star and orb; and day Is the riches of their atmosphere.
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For most of my career I've been very lucky to have avoided major injuries.
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To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
