Blaise Pascal Quotes
Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force... it does not thence follow that they have entered into the spirit of geometry, and I should be greatly averse... to placing them on a level with that science that teaches the true method of directing reason.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community from sharia law. Now, in the United States, it's probably not a big issue right now, but my brother-in-law is gay, and his partner and I would like them to be able to travel any place in the world without them risking harm.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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In every community in Illinois, same-sex couples have chosen to join together and, in many instances, to raise families of their own. These couples are our relatives and friends, our neighbors, co-workers and parents of our children's classmates. They deserve the same rights and responsibilities that civil marriage offers straight couples.
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The disturbing truth about science communication is that we have theories and ways of delivering messages that really are like putting a candle to the dark, as Carl Sagan would say. We aren't sure what will work, when, or how much. But for all that uncertainty, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
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I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.
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You're an asshole! You're an asshole! That's right! You're an asshole! You're an asshole! Yes yes!
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It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries.
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Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force... it does not thence follow that they have entered into the spirit of geometry, and I should be greatly averse... to placing them on a level with that science that teaches the true method of directing reason.
