Blaise Pascal Quotes
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
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I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.
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I think that U.K. together with Europe will be stronger, and I also think Europe with U.K. will be stronger.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
