Blaise Pascal Quotes
If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.
Quotes to Explore
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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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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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one of the fruits of the Spirit and reeled for days upon hearing the announcement that Audio Adrenaline was reunited with one of the singers from DC Talk.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'
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The Internet freedom issue we need to focus on is network neutrality.
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Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.
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He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.
