Blaise Pascal Quotes
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
Joanne Rowling -
I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
Olivia Colman -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank -
I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
Nancy Kerrigan -
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
Lady Gregory
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
Haile Selassie -
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Dale Carnegie -
I have disassociated myself from that book.
Uta Hagen -
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
Carlisle Floyd -
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
Salman Rushdie
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Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.
Taylor Swift -
I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
Malorie Blackman -
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
Tatum O'Neal -
I don't like to talk about myself.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.
Baha'u'llah -
The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
Gary Snyder -
The silvery tree opens to an empty sky - maybe it is better that I am not your husband.
Anna Akhmatova -
The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.
Christina Aguilera -
Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
Blaise Pascal