Blaise Pascal Quotes
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
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There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
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I'm very happy in my life, but I do feel that music has a power to transport you to places or to beautiful moments in your past.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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One must find one's natural home, not try to construct it.
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When you see the right thing to do, you'd better do it.
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When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.