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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With respect to love we speak continually about perfection and the perfect person. With respect to love Christianity also speaks continually about perfection and the perfect person. Alas, but we men talk about finding the perfect person in order to love him. Christianity speaks about being the perfect person who limitlessly loves the person he sees.
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He may look dumb, but that's just a disguise.
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I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.
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In a strange way, I don't have a job, so I have a lot of time on my hands. When I do work, it might be very concentrated, and it might be months where you're not really doing anything except maybe playing the banjo or writing something. You know, there's a lot of time in the day if you're not working 9 to 5.
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I think I am normal. I am normal for me.
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
