Blaise Pascal Quotes
Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.
Quotes to Explore
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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I would see anything by Antony Gormley.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.
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I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
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Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!
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Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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I had a unique circumstance in which my career was associated with George W. Bush, who went straight to the top. I went to work for him in October of 1993. So my whole identity in national politics is associated with this president, and you know, I kind of want to leave it that way. It's not tugging at me to go do the '08 cycle.
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My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.
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I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.
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I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves. And I really hope that people kinda go: "This happened once and I kind of like this song because I relate to it..." So if at least one of my songs over this tour's that song, then that's really cool.
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Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.
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Do not mistake yourself by believing that your being has something in it more exalted than that of others.
