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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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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I think people take Blink-128 more seriously now than they did before. And it's largely our fault because we called our records Enema of the State and Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. We were always kind of the underdogs, especially critically. People wrote us off as this joke band. But the people who listened to Blink knew that we were silly and whatever, but we wrote songs about divorce and suicide and depression. Those kids that were listening to Blink are now the ones that control all these outlets that used to just write us off.
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Never wound a snake; kill it.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.
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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?
