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.

  

  Washed Out
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• We're a nation of immigrants.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Nation
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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
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• 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.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Want
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• Cloture is simply cutting off debate.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

  Adam Michnik
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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.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Look
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• I am really blessed and very grateful for it.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Blessed
  • Grateful

• 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.'

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Hair
  • Being
  • Blonde

• It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Water
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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.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • People
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  • Whole

• I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.

  

  Anita Ekberg
  • Development
  • Bigger
  • Fatness

• 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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  • Purpose

• You called me on the phone, saying you were alone,

  

  Kevin Madison
  • Alone
  • Mom
  • Lying

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Thinking
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• Don't get me wrong - I love London, and still have an apartment there. But it is also a hard city and it wears you down.

  

  Rebecca Loos
  • City
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• i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it.

  

  William Goldman
  • Cold
  • Emotion
  • Term

• Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Simple
  • Always
  • Pleasures

• Every sinew in my body came together in one perfect whole. But those who have ever experienced that feeling, and it doesn't happen very often, will tell you it's in a whole other place of experience from the usual ego or vanity that drives my game. So I'm not afraid to own it for what it was.

  

  Cooper Cronk
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Whole

• The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Consciousness
  • Vanity
  • Pleasures