Blaise Pascal Quotes
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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I believe I've got the best of both worlds - a modern man with old fashioned values. I'm happy to be a house husband but won't let my wife carry her own bag.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.
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My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.
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This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
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When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.
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The quicker you get acclimated to getting hit and being on the ground, it's better for you when the games start.
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I'm dyslexic, I have attention-deficit disorder, and I've got something like a hereditary tremor.
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The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.
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Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
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I discovered the idea of feminism when I watched the film '10 Things I Hate About You.' It's a classic.
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Lists have always implied social order.
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The biggest challenge to being an actor is, when you're not working, just being unemployed: the downtime and not having anything to do.
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I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.
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I won the 2007 U.S. Open and 2009 Masters in my late 30s, largely because of my confident driving.
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Donald Trump is a great listener, and he's a good challenger. He doesn't come across as a person who thinks he knows it all. In fact, he once told me he has had lot of things to learn.
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I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartment I done 'Regulate' in. I had all my equipment set up in the bedroom, a vocal booth in the bathroom and in the closet, and that's where we created it. I had an MPC 60, a Numark mixer, and a Technics 1200, and a ton of records.
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Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude
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Every time something like this has happened in the past, people were grandfathered into the program.
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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
