Blaise Pascal Quotes
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
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It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day,-this is the work of genius.
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Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?
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Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain.
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I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.
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My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
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Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
