Blaise Pascal Quotes
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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We're a nation of immigrants.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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Cloture is simply cutting off debate.
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Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.
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An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.
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I definitely care about what I look like, certainly when I am going out in public, doing an appearance or something, but when I'm home, I'm all sweatpants, all the time.
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I am really blessed and very grateful for it.
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My hair had been dyed blonde for 'Dredd.' After 'Dredd,' I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during 'Being Flynn.'
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It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.
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Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.
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I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.
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This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name.
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You called me on the phone, saying you were alone,
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I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.
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We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
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In boxing, everybody has their favorites.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
