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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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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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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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
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We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.
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There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.
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Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.
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We want a free market, but we know that the paradox of a 'free' market is that sometimes you have to intervene. You have to make sure it's not the law of the jungle but the laws of democracy that works.
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First we start with the lyrics. Most of the lyrics are done by Stefan Kaufmann and me. When we have enough lyrics and enough stories we have the lines to make titles. Then we collect all the ideas of everybody in the band and see which ideas fit together the best with the lyrics to get the right atmosphere. That's the way we compose.
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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
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I will admit that I purposely stress myself out. But I think I like stressing myself out. There's a glamour to, like, 'I've got to get to the airport!' I just like the caricature.
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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.
