Blaise Pascal Quotes
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Quotes to Explore
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
T. S. Eliot
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
Victoria Justice
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
Vidal Sassoon
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
R. Kelly
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
E. G. Marshall
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
Aaron Tveit
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
Dan O'Brien
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
Natalie Gulbis
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
J. Michael Straczynski
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
Bear Grylls
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
Kate McKinnon
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
Ian McShane
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Small aim is a crime.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
Zig Ziglar
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
W. C. Fields
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
Samuel Johnson
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Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.
P. D. James
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I want to speak seventeen languages. When you think like that, you'll be consumed by failure. I'm haunted daily by what I don't know.
Kelsey Grammer
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I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].
Fannie Lou Hamer
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I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why I was doing an art movie, and I would just tell them that, 'You know, what's the big deal, it's a movie.' I'm so glad that's a thing of the past.
Madhuri Dixit
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal