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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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.
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To be successful, one must take chances.
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An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."
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Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.
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Sport instils discipline, and it's a distraction.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
