Blaise Pascal Quotes
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.
Quotes to Explore
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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I was born with an evil face.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn’t you.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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All things, however, are not equal. Longevity is not a trait that exists in isolation; it evolves as part of a complex life history, with a wide range of underpinning physiological mechanisms involving, among other things, chronic disease processes.
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We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.
