Blaise Pascal Quotes
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
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Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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'Twin Peaks' was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For the benefit of a minority, it is courteous to serve chilled fruit juice in addition to cocktails made with liquor.
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Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner's writings, but I can't accept the idea that characters like Beckmesser and Alberich are Jewish stereotypes in disguise. Would Beckmesser be a court councillor if he was meant to be a Jewish stereotype? No Jew could occupy such a role.
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A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
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A lot of followers would tell me, 'You've helped me through my depression or helped me stop cutting.' Something as easy as posting a video keeps them happy, or talking to them on Twitter helps them realize that what they're going through is temporary.
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Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
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I leaned back against him and rested my cheek on his shoulder. I could feel the river water dripping off of him. "Thank you" I whispered. When I looked up, I saw he was crying.
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I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.
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Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
