Blaise Pascal Quotes
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.Blaise Pascal
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck -
I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
Dan Marino -
Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
I am healthy and happy.
Candice Swanepoel -
Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
Gabrielle Union -
In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
Karen Maitland
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
Maika Monroe -
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
D. H. Lawrence -
As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
Eddie Murphy -
I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
Iris Apfel -
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
Karl Liebknecht -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
Zac Efron -
I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
Vin Diesel -
I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
Kari Matchett -
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
Vera Farmiga -
I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
Ed Helms -
During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
Iqbal Quadir
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Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, … I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.
Charles Darwin -
I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
Cinema has evolved in two paths. One is spectacle. Like the phantasmagoria, its goal is the creation of a total substitute sensory world. The other is peep show, which claims for its realm both the erotic and the untampered observance of real life, and imitates the keyhole or voyeur's window without need of color, noise, grandeur.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.
Ziyi Zhang -
I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.
Vladimir Putin -
All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.
Blaise Pascal