Blaise Pascal Quotes
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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The great thing about doing a play is you get this rehearsal period, which you don't get with most film and television roles.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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It is absurd that so much money has been wasted on manipulating public opinion, on simulating emotion. This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can’t manufacture the happiness of our people.
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A person cries out against life because it's lonely, and because life's broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it, too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have - but very painful to the lips.
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The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
