Blaise Pascal Quotes
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
Blaise Pascal
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You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.
Oprah Winfrey
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If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.
Ian Mckellen
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When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them.
Edvard Grieg
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Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
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The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of that activity by reference to principles.
R. H. Tawney
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Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa.
Kevin Keegan
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Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rules and sinning. I'm really interested in what it means to be female.
Susanna Moore
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I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
Anthony Kiedis
Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.
Carl Maria von Weber
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I call God ECCO (Earth Coincidence Control Office) . It's much more satisfying to call it that. A lot of people accept this and they don't know that they're just talking about God. I finally found a God that was big enough. As the astronomer said to the Minister, My God's astronomical. The Minister said, How can you relate to something so big? The astronomer said, Well, that isn't the problem, your God's too small!
John Lilly
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Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.
Seneca the Younger
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Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.
Blaise Pascal