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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I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.
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I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.
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I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on 'Jeopardy,' but never the bonus question.
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When a Mormon knocks, they say, 'Can I teach you about Jesus Christ?' And if you say no, they'll say, 'Then how can I be of service to you?' So anybody who was smart would be like, 'You can take out my trash and mow my lawn.'
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Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.
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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
