Blaise Pascal Quotes
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
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Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I don't know anything about music.
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
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American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.
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My guilty pleasure is reality TV, as I am really nosey.
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Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.
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'What?''Never mind. It will make sense when it comes about. All improbabilities do when probability waves collapse into event.'
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it
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Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
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It's really difficult to have a challenging male-driven show, and certain networks take off because they have their own mandate about what they want to do.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem. By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself. I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that. So to try to truly render the kind of economic and racial inequity I grew up in, I had to find a way to be more honest about what happened. And it wasn't fun to write, even though the poems aren't 100% autobiographical.
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It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.
