Blaise Pascal Quotes
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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Most clubs would actually like homegrown players because they're a lot cheaper.
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Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?
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I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.
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I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
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I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.
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Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.
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I always look so different in different roles, people are never quite sure. Which is the way I like it.
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My style is to have a big vision, a big commitment.
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Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.
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You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
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I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.
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I love Tokyo, I've been several times. The first trip was just weird; it was a weird time. It was in the '90s, and it was different then.
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Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.
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It's all about having fun and smiling and shaking hands.
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Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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Little things console us because little things afflict us.
