Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.
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But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.
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If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!
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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
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A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.
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If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.
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With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.
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The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
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If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?
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I have no idea where my career is going. I just make the best music that I possibly can.
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Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.
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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.
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Coaching is about helping young people have a chance to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have is being called 'Coach.'
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I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.
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Changing things is not easy, and I say this without any irony. It is not that someone does not want to, but because it is a hard thing to do. Take Obama, a forward-thinking man, a liberal, a democrat. Did he not pledge to shut down Guantanamo before his election? But did he do it? No, he did not. And may I ask why not? Did he not want to do it? He wanted to, I am sure he did, but it did not work out. He sincerely wanted to do it, but did not succeed, since it turned out to be very complicated.
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It is not enough to know what you want, you must also know why you want it, and what you will do once you have it! All those elements impact the world around you and therefore must be considered.
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Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.
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He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.
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All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
