Blaise Pascal Quotes
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
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Make health care a right, not a privilege.
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I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.
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Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.
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I see poetry as spiritual medicine.
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There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.
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'You want a blessing, my son? Then God give strength to your bow and add bite to your arrows! May your arm never tire and your eye never dim. God and the saints bless you while you kill!'
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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It’s said that 'power corrupts,' but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insatiable, implacable.
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If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
