Blaise Pascal Quotes
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
Quotes to Explore
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I guess I crave stability.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
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Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates.
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I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
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You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
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Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
