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Blaise Pascal Quotes

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: June 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662

Topics

Man Evil Human Room Sit Being

Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.

Work People Exercise Long Fail Even

I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a couple of short anecdotes.

Success History Short Early First

Sometimes it just becomes so technical that you forget what you're doing. If you start thinking about how you come down the stairs and think about how each muscle is working, you can't go down the stairs. Anyway, I'm a person who overthinks and overanalyzes everything, so if you give me one thought, it creates a lot more.

Me Start Think Thinking Thought You

Fun is when you're writing a song and you're trying a rough shot at a demo and... it works. That's when it's fun. After that, it's work.

Work Fun Writing Song Trying You

I'm always building images. Even when I go out and put a look together, it's in my head the whole day, like, how I'm going to create this whole story. But I'm never satisfied; it's always a work in progress no matter what. Every day is working.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Work Day Together Progress Building

I think it's disingenuous for people to talk in their living rooms about government collapsing, the possibility of total anarchy, but when someone says it in public, it's so terrifying they have to persecute that person.

Augustus Sol Invictus

Government People Think Someone Talk

Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.

Language Political Talking Matters

It's been an enormous privilege to be the government chief scientific adviser.

Government Privilege Chief Been

It's okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them.

Mistakes Learn Long You Okay Make

Having the tattoo itself is not really for the end result for me. I like having them done.

Me End Result Done Tattoo Like

Babies, babies, babies! They're everywhere, aren't they? In our eyes, in our thoughts, in our arms, in our dreams. Sometimes, in our dreams, they are riding alpacas or juggling tacos - but that doesn't mean those dreams are necessarily about babies. Look, I'm not Freud.

Dreams Eyes Thoughts Look Sometimes

In the fashion world, you have to make clothes to sell. You have to make clothes for the press. You have to make clothes for yourself. What I mean is, everything is an obligation. But a writer? A pure artist? Maybe he doesn't make one lira - but he does what he wants.

Yourself World Fashion Clothes You

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