Blaise Pascal Quotes
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
Quotes to Explore
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
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I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
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Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.
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As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
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We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.
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People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, 'I'm getting even.' … For me, being funny is the best revenge.
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God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.
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You are an alchemist; make gold of that.
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men talk of money and industry of hard times and recoveries of finance and economics but the ants wait and the scorpions wait for while men talk they are making deserts all the time getting the world ready for the conquering ant drought and erosion and desert because men cannot learn
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
