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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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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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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Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.
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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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To not see black or Latina women as famous in my industry is crazy! I have to talk about it.
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The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies.
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I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her - looks, talent, opportunity, with her 'whole life ahead of her,' yadda, yadda, yadda - yet was spiraling into misery.
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Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena. … But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
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For me, if I get up and don't meditate and don't eat something before having caffeine, I go from 0 to 10 on the stress scale.
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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.
