Blaise Pascal Quotes
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Quotes to Explore
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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The world is too violent right now.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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We just here to do our job.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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Big problems usually come from big sources.
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A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
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When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
