Blaise Pascal Quotes
What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
Quotes to Explore
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In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
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A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break that I got. Or when the break came, they weren't ready for it.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.
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What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
