Blaise Pascal Quotes
Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.
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When I came into WWE, what I said to myself was, I wanted to change the term from 'divas' to 'women.'
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
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I would love to do film in Spanish.
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To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand
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A maiden hath no tongue--but thought.
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Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.
