Blaise Pascal Quotes
When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.
Quotes to Explore
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown brand is worn by a certain person in a tabloid, it will be the biggest designer within a week.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.
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I never fall in love.
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I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.
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It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.
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When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.
