Blaise Pascal Quotes
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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WWE was an opportunity to wrestle in front of thousands - in 2013, I did 227 matches, and almost all of them were in front of more than three or four thousand people, with a high of 70,000 plus. It was an incredible experience to be part of that.
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Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.
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Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.
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I definitely have fans that have been with me from the beginning. I have fans that didn’t like Bros but love what I’m doing now, both men and women. And I constantly have people coming and telling me they’re new fans. God willing may the journey continue!
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Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
