Blaise Pascal Quotes
If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It's a joyful approach to darkness.
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Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.
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The Monmouth Coffee Shop is the best place in London.
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By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.
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If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.
