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Blaise Pascal Quotes

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Ignorance Present Vanity Pleasures

The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.

Andrew McCarthy

Price Outside Box Call Somebody Who

A puppet, for example, is just a piece of wood, a couple of rivets, but put them together, and if you know how to do it, and the audience's imagination joins in with this, then a miracle will come out of that machine. That is what we and the audience do in the theatre - we create miracles in that space.

Together Imagination Space Theatre

In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.

Live Beautiful Wife World Game Down

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

Character Book Believe Someone You

I don't necessarily like anniversaries that much.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Like Much Necessarily

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

Intelligence Million Million Dollars

I haven't tweeted once in my life, but I'm sick of hearing about it already. What once may have been the cool way of letting a hundred people know that you're about to go mow your lawn now has the feel of a used-to-be-fresh means of communicating. So yesterday, like two-way pagers. And AOL.

Life People Cool Sick My Life You

I'm just happy to have my legs back, cause at one point in time, I wasn't even walking.

Time Happy Walking Back Legs Point

I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.

Government Veterans Improving Valley

Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free.

Government Theatre World Free Doing

If you're a retailer and know that once a year you're going to get Mary Higgins Clark's book on a given date, you're going to have an awful lot of copies out there in time for that. You'd have to be simple-minded not to do that - although bookselling prior to 1950 never made that connection.

Time Book Year You Connection Know

The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields.

Free Content Fields Many Ways

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