Blaise Pascal Quotes
Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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I hardly ever go to the movies.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.
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We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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I think infidelity is difficult, monogamy is difficult, and marriage is difficult.
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An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as peas in the same pod.
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Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.
