Blaise Pascal Quotes
I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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Good material is good material.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.
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If a guy is hurt, you take care of him. The Falcons didn't do that.
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'Shark Tank' has been a sincere joy. As our traditional venture-backed companies get bigger, the investing side tends to get more political and complicated. 'Shark Tank' takes me back to my early days working with ambitious founders in their earliest and scrappiest days. The show reminds me of what I deeply love about this business.
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Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.
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I would have far more fear of being mistaken, and of finding that the Christian religion was true, than of not being mistaken in believing it true.
