Blaise Pascal Quotes
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.Blaise Pascal
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Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.
Gabriele D'Annunzio -
I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
Walt Disney -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa -
I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
R. L. Stine -
At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
Jacob Batalon
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
Damien Chazelle -
Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
Pamela Meyer -
I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.
Ted Sarandos -
I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
Beck -
The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
Karin Slaughter -
The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
Cab Calloway
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
Wade Boggs -
You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
Jaclyn Smith -
I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
Zosia Mamet -
In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
Victoria de los Angeles -
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields -
I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see, taken together, is Myself. I do not shake or move.
Sai Baba
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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
Stanley Kubrick -
I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain in the neck. I still am a pain in the neck.
Elsa Peretti -
It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
Thomas Hardy -
Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself.
John Searle -
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.
Blaise Pascal