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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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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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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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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All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.
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No study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate in states which use the death penalty is twice that of states which do not, according to FBI statistics.
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Old #64 chose... a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.
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The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
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Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
