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.
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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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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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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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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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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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I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.
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Vathek has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction.
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The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.
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The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.
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I'm looking to make history.
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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.
