Pierre Corneille Quotes
L'exemple souvent n'est qu'un miroir trompeur;Et l'ordre du destin qui gêne nos penséesN'est pas toujours écrit dans les choses passées.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.
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A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.
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Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
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I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.
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I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.
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Only a thoughtless observer can deny that correspondences come into play between the world of modern technology and the archaic symbol-world of mythology.
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E.U. is the first global domestic market.
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I don't want to be another Jordan, Magic, or Isiah. When my career is over, I want to be able to look in the mirror and say 'I did it my way'.
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I've always wanted to do something in the food and beverage world. Part of my MO is to go into unchartered territory. I enjoy a challenge.
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A promise is a promise if it is made in blood.
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L'exemple souvent n'est qu'un miroir trompeur;Et l'ordre du destin qui gêne nos penséesN'est pas toujours écrit dans les choses passées.
