Blaise Pascal Quotes
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.
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You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.
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Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.
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Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
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I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.
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Actors spend a great deal of their time making films. And that doesn't mean that they're not educated. But we haven't gone to law school and we're not experts on policy. We're just people with a platform and an opinion. But that should never be enough, in my opinion, to be political.
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If there is any Arab problem we can solve it inside the Arab League. But we are going to deal with the other side, with the Israelis.... It is not me who will decide who will invite, to speak frankly. It is not me, it is not the Arab side, it is not the Israelis who will decide who will invite.
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The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.
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We did nothing but breathe life into this team, that's all we did.
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The medication, the hormones and the relentless frustrations of our lives make us bitchy and you're not allowed to be bitchy in public or people won't like you.
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I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.
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The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.
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She was suddenly aware of him in a way she hadn't been before. Hayward was good-looking in a sweet and wholesome way.
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The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
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The miniature potatoes tasted a little like dirt, and the green veggies were too chewy, but Jason ate them for the sake of his nutrition. Anything that terrible had to be healthy.
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When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.
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The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
