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Pierre Corneille Quotes

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.

Pierre Corneille

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: french
Birth: June 6, 1606 - October 1, 1684

Topics

Revenge Crown Hatred Disaster Take

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don't like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

Work Success Responsibility You Up

I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.

Love Imagination Play Kid Always

That's something that the world needs to learn today: that you can disagree and still be friends.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

Today World Learn Friends You Still

If you set the attractiveness bar really low, people have to compliment you on your looks when they meet you in person. I'm pretty much a genius. I'm actually applying to work at the Genius Bar based on this trick.

Work People Genius You Person Meet

An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences.

Fear Happiness Responsibility Best

In any good piece of writing, it should be easy enough to switch genders.

Good Writing Enough Easy Switch Any

There will come an age when our average life expectancy will reach 200 years.

Life Age Reach Will Years Average

If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. They'd tell you stuff like, 'Don't drink out of the colored fountain, dear, it's dirty.' In the white part of town, the white fountain was always covered with chewing gum and the marks of grubby kids' paws, and the colored fountain was always clean.

You White Dirty Clean Movement Out

I understand Scouse - I think!

Think Understand I Think

I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on planes and in hotels, too.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Time Sleep Reading Bed Most Hotels

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Peace Me Questions Doing Philosophy

I'm a complete addict of The 'X Factor,' so I can see why everyone gets so inspired. But there's a downside to celebrity: your life is up for grabs, your career is much more disposable, and you are therefore vulnerable. It's a high price to pay.

Life You Career I Can Price Why

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