Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?
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I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!
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Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.
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If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.
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It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
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When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.
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I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry.
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Government employees deserve to be treated fairly, but they do not deserve a significantly better deal than average Illinoisans get in their own jobs.
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I think it's what art should do: make you feel less alone - either in the quest for truth or in dealing with any pain you have.
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Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.
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I'm the farthest thing from a foodie or a food snob. Those people terrify me.
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I was a very early believer in the idea of convergence.
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No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.
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Work is like a drug. I'm jonesing for more. It's gotten more addictive than I had realized. I get anxious when I have nothing to do now.
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Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.
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Dear God, I am only what you made me and I appreciate everything that you gave me, but like, I don't want to do it any more, sort of lost sight of what I'm doing it for.
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Our results in the quarter were good in the face of continued pressure on our margins and pricing, and an increasingly competitive environment in virtually all markets
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True eloquence scorns eloquence.
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.
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Continued eloquence is wearisome.
