Pierre Corneille Quotes
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
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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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When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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The mindset that I have on every project I take on is, 'How do I make this interesting enough for me to want to stop and look at it?' So in that regard, what I do behind the camera, whether it's still or motion picture, is the same.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
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I am a guy who likes those who drive through red lights.
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The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.
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Is a man less of a man, because he's learned to hold his tongue?
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I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.
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Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It indicates self-denial and imparts strength of character. It produces a well-regulated mind.
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No man is free who cannot control himself.
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Qui ne craint point la mort ne craint point les menaces.
