Blaise Pascal Quotes

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Blaise Pascal

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• When I heard the script of 'Loukyam,' I was laughing, as it was such a laugh riot. So all this made me sign the film.

  

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• 'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.

  

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• I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.

  

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• The only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.

  

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• I love to write. I used to be a math teacher. And I like the idea that other people could write about the same subjects, but no one would write it just the way I do. It's very individual: a child could write the same story as somebody else, but it wouldn't come out the same.

  

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• Guys like Josh Gordon need to stay in his sport and mind his own business.

  

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• I've always wanted to be a professional dancer, I'd always wanted to be a ballerina. I trained for 13 years but it never came to be.

  

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• Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.

  

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• To be a police officer in New York requires so much more than just we, as a citizen, need to walk around. Your job is to put yourself in this place where a horrible event has happened and try to figure it out. That's what you do, day in and day out. You have to have a certain distance to it. You can't let yourself go too far into it.

  

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• I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

  

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• When I got my first publishing deal, I felt some responsibility to try to write with the people that they were asking me to write with.

  

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• How are we all going to pitch in to fix this party to make working America know that the Democratic party is absolutely on their side? That's the real question.

  

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• We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.

  

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• I'd love to meet my ancestors. I'd love to be able to speak to them.

  

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• I just don't think I'm that interesting. I don't think what I have to say is that interesting. To hear me go blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean, who... cares?

  

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• Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?

  

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• Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.

  

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• It has been my impression that at any gathering, whether it be public or private, those who are quickest to inject words like sensitivity, empathy, consensus, trust, confidentiality, and togetherness into their arguments have perverted these humanitarian words into power tools to get others to adapt to them.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
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• The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.

  

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• By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

  

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• Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Sensitivity
  • Indicates
  • Inversion