Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
Adam Grant -
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
Jackson Browne -
As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
Naturi Naughton 3LW -
In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
Federica Mogherini -
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
C. L. R. James -
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Vaclav Havel
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
Jack Schmitt -
I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
M. J. Rose -
When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
Gary Herbert -
Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
Gavin Newsom -
I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
Gale Sayers -
We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
Tamora Pierce
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
Hamdi Ulukaya -
I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
Damian McGinty -
I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
Tallulah Bankhead -
America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
Wayne Grady -
I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.
Taya Kyle -
In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables.
Dale T. Mortensen
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I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.
Viggo Mortensen -
I want to do films that are genre-based and character-based.
Rana Daggubati -
There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
William Cowper -
He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing. Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.
William Shakespeare -
He is not bound so tightly by tradition that he will refuse a good idea simply for it being new, and not so wild that he would take a bad idea simply because it is new.
Laura Anne Gilman -
Men blaspheme what they do not know.
Blaise Pascal