Blaise Pascal Quotes
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
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I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.
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I would like to find, or I would like a part to come to me that is like the part that Dennis Franz was fortunate to be able to play on 'NYPD Blue,' a sort of similar-looking actor to me, a generic, bald white guy who you would often think of as playing the authority figure. But he was the disgruntled middle-man. That would be a fun character.
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Your role as a founder changes dramatically once your team hits 10, 20, 50, 100, and so on. Sometimes you forget how big you've grown and continue to act as if you're still 10 people.
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We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again.
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I have a great affinity for senior citizens.
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Come on, guys, I am a computer nerd. I love Hollywood and movies. My whole life is like a movie. I wouldn't be who I am if it wasn't for the mind-altering glimpse at the future in 'Star Wars.'
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It's really special to play with your friends for your country.
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Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.
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The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
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Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.
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I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.
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As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.
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Learn. Ceaselessly. Learn to code, to write persuasively, to understand new technologies, to bring out the best in your team, to find underused resources and to spot patterns.
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I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.
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I think maybe you should ask someone else. Don't ask me.
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I spent almost 11 years at university. I have three degrees. I was a nutritional scientist for the Department of National Defense, and then I spent the next 20 years studying it and writing about it.
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An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
