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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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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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.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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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.
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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.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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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.
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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.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Small aim is a crime.
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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?
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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I think we all have the right to feel 100 percent beautiful and 100 percent confident without pleasing anybody 'cause we're not here for anybody else.
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You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.
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If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.
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We were film geeks. We devoured everything: really obscure art films, foreign films. We were the kind of guys that lived at the Cinematheque. But at the end of the day, your favorite movies are like everybody else's favorite movies. Because those are the movies that become a touch point where you can connect to other people.
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
