Blaise Pascal Quotes

I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.

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• It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

  

  Felicia Day
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• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  

  Barry Mann
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• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
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• Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

  

  M. H. Abrams
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• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
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• Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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• For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

  

  Vikas Swarup
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• Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
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• I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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• Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

  

  Ralph Merkle
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• People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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• Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure.

  

  Lara St. John
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• It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.

  

  Warren Ellis
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• In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

  

  Ovid
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• The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

  

  Lynn Barber

• Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

  

  W. T. Purkiser
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• My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.

  

  Chris Pine
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• In some places the metropolis makes do with paying a clique of feudal overlords; in others, it has fabricated a fake bourgeoisie of colonized subjects in a system of divide and rule; elsewhere, it has killed two birds with one stone: the colony is both settlement and exploitation.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Fake

• The French? Upper class. Now, this is not all of France, it's just the French upper class, and it's very true. That's the way that they are, yes.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • True
  • Way
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• I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Mind
  • I Think
  • Principle