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Blaise Pascal Quotes

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Source Force Actions Our Causes

I went to Drexel University, majored in computer science. Drexel has a great program - they call it co-op - but its, like, mandatory to graduate to do internships. I loved it because it helped me figure out very quickly that I didn't really want to be a programmer.

Science Great Me Loved Want Out

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.

Jeffrey Eugenides

You Choose Down Place Student New

As my parents taught me, by both words and deeds, a life of public services is as much a gift to the person who serves as it is to those he's serving.

Merrick Garland

Life Words Parents Me Gift Person

Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.

Music Feel You Then Less Complicity

At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship.

Relationship Professional Now First

I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

Chord Overstreet

Me Mom Small Guitar Three Christmas

Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.

People Thinking America Wonder Wrong

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

William Shakespeare

Lose Nothing He Having

My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

Hero Queen Role Model Lifetime Role

It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.

Connection Politicians Us Teddy Did

I created 'America's Next Top Model' one-hundred percent. I was in my kitchen making tea one morning, and I looked out the window, and the idea popped into my head. I wanted it to be 'American Idol' meets 'Ford Supermodel of the Year' meets 'The Real World.'

Morning Tea Window World Kitchen

That's how I make work. Along the way, I take notes, I read about history and popular culture. Sometimes I act out things in the studio. I go back to my mother's hair salon so I can hear three voices going all at once. I pull inspiration from everything.

Work Mother History Culture Hair Go

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