Blaise Pascal Quotes
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.
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Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
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I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.
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The law of tithing is one of the most important ever revealed to man. . . . Through obeying this law the blessings of prosperity and success will be given to the Saints.
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I would rather create a precedent than find one.
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We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.
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The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.
