Blaise Pascal Quotes
The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these associations and connections, and in the dullness in discovering such transitions which the other shows.
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The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.
