Blaise Pascal Quotes
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
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I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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I have a nice family and I'm well rounded.
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I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.
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The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
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After Jessica Mitford published 'The American Way of Death' in 1963, to expose the abuses in the funeral industry, a groundswell of support for government intervention followed. Under President Ronald Reagan The Funeral Rule was first enacted to protect consumers from deceptive practices, but the rule has yet to put the nail in the coffin.
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Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
