Blaise Pascal Quotes
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
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I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
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I consider myself a very lucky man indeed.
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I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.
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Don't get me wrong: I love a massive show with dancers and the works, and I love Zumba! But I just want there to be more people who just sing.
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I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.
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Young children are not prejudiced against languages, unlike many adults, ... They are not afraid of having a go, of interacting with others linguistically. Later on, their hormones tend to get in the way.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
