Blaise Pascal Quotes
That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.
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I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.
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Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.
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Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
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Let us have peace.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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I'm pagan.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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I am a writer. Being critical is a writer's responsibility.
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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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Real luxury is a balance between quality and the affection you feel for an object that cannot be easily replicated.
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I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.
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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default.
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That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.
