Blaise Pascal Quotes
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Quotes to Explore
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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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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
