Blaise Pascal Quotes

Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

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• Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.

  

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• It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

  

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• Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

  

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• One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.

  

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• Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.

  

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• I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.

  

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• I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  

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• Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

  

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• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

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• My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.

  

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• All labels are offensive in some way.

  

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• Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

  

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• Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

  

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• Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.

  

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• When you build your own brand, people will still return your phone calls regardless of the call letters or where you actually work, because they now know you and they trust you in what you have to say and what you're doing. That, to me, is the most important aspect when it comes to building your brand.

  

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• I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

  

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• My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.

  

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• Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Way
  • Mediocrity
  • Established