Blaise Pascal Quotes
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
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These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.
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'You're fired' was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I'm looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the expression 'You're fired.'
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There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservative. Japanese culture, just the comics are amazing. They're like films: very few words; they move so much in these books with hundreds of pages.
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The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.
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It was on a trip to Africa with my family - I was eight - and an angry baboon jumped through the window of our parked car. As my siblings escaped, my foot got stuck in the seat. I froze and watched it steal the whole contents of our car around me.
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What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.
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Hats are radical; only people that wear hats understand that.
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This is the first step in determining whether and how Congress can provide a solution.
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Every little boy wanna pick up the mic, And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype. But that's like pickin up a ball, playin with Mike, Swingin at Ken Griffey or challengin' Roy to a fight.
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It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans in social media than it is to communicate complex policies.
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We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie.
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If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.
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The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.
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The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.
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My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.
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He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.
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And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
