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 Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!
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There's very few directors that know what that rehearsal's for. And often it's just about calming down the director. If he could see it or she sees it, she goes oh, it's going to be okay.
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I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.
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The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.
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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
