Blaise Pascal Quotes
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
Quotes to Explore
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Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
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Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it's everywhere.
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I'm a different person. I don't want to be titled as Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's daughter. I want to be thought of as Frances Cobain.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.
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I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.
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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.
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I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters - that's eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support.
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It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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I don't think people look at how pop stars live and feel anything aspirational at all.
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We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
