Blaise Pascal Quotes

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

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• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Behavior

• If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • You
  • Government
  • Talk

• When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Good
  • God
  • Relationship

• My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Different
  • Literature
  • Humor

• Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Business
  • Know
  • Magic

• I'm a vegetarian and change my hair color as much as I can.

  

  Hannah Marks
  • Change
  • Hair
  • Color

• Although each human rights victory energizes us to continue our work, there remains a deep sorrow for those prisoners still wrongfully languishing in jail.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • Deep
  • Victory

• It's a sad situation when you have to talk crap about other organizations that you know your paths are never going to cross competitively.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Sad

• Miss Fontanne and I rehearse all the time. Even after we leave the theater, we rehearse. We sleep in the same bed. We have a script on our hands when we go to bed. You can't come and tell us to stop rehearsing after eight hours.

  

  Alfred Lunt
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Sleep

• If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.

  

  Ellen Muth
  • Writing

• This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Life
  • Rock

• Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again.

  

  Peter Sarsgaard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• You should be a hero to yourself. And if you're not... check it out.

  

  Peter Tork The Monkees
  • Yourself
  • Hero

• I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Style
  • Gay
  • Everett-style

• To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Safety
  • Pray
  • Traffic

• Dark can't exist with the light. Ain't nothing dark about God.

  

  Mystikal
  • God
  • Dark
  • Nothing

• People are going to bash you. You get rejected. It's hard. I don't really feel like that's my place as the teacher. I think the most important thing is to figure out what they're trying to do and turn them onto writers who are doing similar stuff. I think that's something I can do more than anything else: get them to be big readers.

  

  Molly Antopol
  • People
  • Important
  • Rejected

• Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• Did I hear God call me an idiot?

  

  William P. Young
  • Idiot

• During my early period I had custom-made overdrive stuff because I didn't like what they were making at the time.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Time
  • Stuff
  • Custom

• Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Creates
  • Custom
  • Equity