Blaise Pascal Quotes
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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My heart is as pure as the driven slush.
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If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
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I am not driven.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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I'm not driven by being understood.
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One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.
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The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're always asked to do what you've already done.
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You see, the people that have a point of view and have an opinion and have some intellect are dangerous in the film community - they're dangerous.
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We reviewed our process at Greylock and discovered that the best investments are non-obvious enough that they result in a mixed vote by our partnership.
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I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.
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What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.
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I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.
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The dusk runs down the lane driven like hail; Far off a precise whistle is escheat To the dark; and then the towering weak and pale....
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You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.
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As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans.
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A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.
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The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.
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We tend to live up to our expectations.
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The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
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I know this music from memory, not from the music.
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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
