Blaise Pascal Quotes
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
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It's funny the things the Internet likes to proclaim.
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Taleggio is the perfect cheese to melt over a warm dish.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.
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The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
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I'm also not going to explain something just because I said it in a rap. Take what you want from it.
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I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.
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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
