Blaise Pascal Quotes
No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth.
Quotes to Explore
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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Social media buzz can lead to huge successes when people spread the word about something they love and want to share. But authors creating their own buzz? Making their own noise? It's hard to make a lot of noise on our own about our own work. Except, sadly, negative noise.
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Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
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The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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A guy who loves his truck needs other people to admire his driving machine. Yeah, needs. That's the truth. I don't know why, but that's the way truck guys are.
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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
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If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.
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So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!
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No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth.
