Blaise Pascal Quotes

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

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• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

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• It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

  

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• Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.

  

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• I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.

  

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• Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.

  

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• The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

  

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• I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the villain. I don't think of 'Travis Bickle' as the villain.

  

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• The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

  

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• You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

  

  Karl Malone
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• We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
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• With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.

  

  Sam Simon
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• No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.

  

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• If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

  

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• Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

  

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• When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

  

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• The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?

  

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• My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.

  

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• Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

  

  Blaise Pascal
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