Blaise Pascal Quotes
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
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I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.
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If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some Heavenly blessings.
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I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.
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It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack a medieval fortress using no weapons that would destroy or harm it.
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
