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 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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Simply put, ObamaCare cost Americans jobs through uncertainty and now implementation threatens even more jobs. No wonder the majority of Americans continue to oppose it.
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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.
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The disciples obey because that's what people do when someone rises from the dead and gives instructions.
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When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.
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You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with womenChain my tongue with whiskyStuff my nose with garlicCoat my eyes with butterFill my ears with silverStick my legs in plasterTell me lies about Vietnam.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
