Blaise Pascal Quotes
Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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America is a meritocracy.
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Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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If I'm owed money, but I say, 'Don't pay me, pay my cousin. Don't pay me, pay my charity,' you can do that, but then the IRS requires that you pay income tax on that. It's your income if you earned it and you directed where it went. If you exercised control over where the money went, you have to pay income tax on that.
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Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.
