Blaise Pascal Quotes

A jester, a bad character.

Blaise Pascal

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• Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Women
  • Problem
  • Inequality

• When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Character
  • Words

• Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Want
  • Brain
  • Angry

• If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • May
  • Day

• Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Environment
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

  

  Samuel Chase
  • Government
  • Christian
  • Religious

• I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Achieve

• I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Kid
  • Dancing
  • Australia

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Winning

• I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Business
  • Company
  • Meat

• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Class
  • Warrior
  • Middle

• The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • America
  • Christian

• The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Single

• A well begun is half ended.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Half
  • Well
  • Ended

• I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Space

• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Happiness

• The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Like
  • Special
  • Old

• I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • People
  • Character
  • German

• With acting, I get to escape into this character and embody it. With music it's like, "Hey guys, this is my diary, here's all my feelings."

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Feelings

• It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down to creating the minutiae of detail. Writing fiction requires stamina, a sense of how people's lives work, how people work toward and against one another and, above all, precision.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Food
  • Road

• Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you're not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• A jester, a bad character.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Character
  • Jester