Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Our poker table is eight guys, and then I'm the ninth; I'm usually the only girl at the table.
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
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I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
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That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.
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Be a mistress to none, but all good to some.
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There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.
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Carolyn Maloney led the fight to make sure that DNA evidence kits are processed and passed the Debbie Smith Bill. She, when no one almost would listen to us on the whole issue of the Taliban and its treatment of women, she helped pass the Afghan Women's Empowerment Act.
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Oh, there's all these rumors that I'm a lesbian. I have a boyfriend now, Brandon Blackstock; my manager Narvel's son, Reba McEntire's stepson.
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The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
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Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
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Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind.
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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew up in a family that was very involved with the legal battles against apartheid—the great treason trials in the 1950s and early '60s, and later with the legal resources center that my mother founded. My father was involved with a number of very prominent cases that had political aspects to them, whether it was the inquest into the Sharpeville Massacre, the death of Steve Biko, or one of the trials of Nelson Mandela.
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However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
