Blaise Pascal Quotes
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.
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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
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With The King Center as her base, my mother pressed on to fulfill a role that changed lives and legislation. She was a woman who refused to surrender the reigns of what she knew to be her assignment, even when male civil rights and business leaders tried to convince her that she should leave the work of building her husband's legacy to them.
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If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
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It's not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 when the country was just out of the industrial era. There hasn't been a substantial systemic change the way we do high school since then.
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I am always searching for something different or something fresh, something hasn't been done. But the truth is, at the end of the day, we're all sort of retelling something. We're doing a version of something that's already been done.
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It's unfortunate that sometimes the personal things affect the business.
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I'm not playing 'Survivor' when someone I love has cancer.
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I have had a lot of training as an actor, but it's very different than being on set.
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You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
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As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.
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I'm just like you, only I'm different because I'm me.
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I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop.
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New platforms are emerging: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Xbox. And film actors are gravitating towards television, because there are basically better roles there. Television is making the kind of epics and genres that the movie studios used to make, and often doing it better with more complex narratives and corresponding budgets.
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Let us come together before we're annihilated.
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I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.
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We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.
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We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.
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And this, they say, is how thirteen became the “baker’s dozen”—a custom common for over a century, and alive in some places to this day.
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Custom determines what is agreeable.
