Blaise Pascal Quotes
What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.
Quotes to Explore
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.
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I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.
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Anything you want to know, you go to Quora and get it. And at the same time, give people a platform that is easy to use for sharing the knowledge.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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It takes a long time to sound like yourself.
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Music is such a problem in the time it takes.
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Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back from this way of acting or reacting, to present it to oneself as an object of thought and to question it as to its meaning, its conditions, and its goals. Thought is freedom in relation to what one does, the motion by which one detaches from it, establishes it as an object, and reflects on it as a problem.
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Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work and her choices.
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...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has virtue sufficiently supported by material resources to facilitate participation in the actions that virtue calls for.
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What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.
