Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

  

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• God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good.

  

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• Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.

  

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• You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.

  

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• I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

  

  Dallas Roberts
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• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

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• I got quite good results from protein plates.

  

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• Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.

  

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• When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out in the world. It just feels good.

  

  M. Ward
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• If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.

  

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• Whatever you are, be a good one.

  

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• The Dark Satirist, like the Dark Knight - that could be a good name for a superhero.

  

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• The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.

  

  Vince Cable
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• I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

  

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• Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

  

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• Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.

  

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• You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

  

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• We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.

  

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• I was 18, at art school, and saw this cute boy playing banjo. I was obsessed. I taught myself how to play. I listened to a lot of country and just messed around. The second song I wrote on the banjo was 'Good to Be a Man.' That what's got me signed.

  

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• Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.

  

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• I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

  

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• I had come out of retirement into a very difficult situation with the PeopleSoft takeover, got through it, and was having a good time, frankly. We just ran out of runway at PeopleSoft. Had we had another year, maybe two years, I think we would have made it.

  

  David Duffield
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• I'll audition for something and then the feedback has been, 'The director wants you, the creative people want you, but the studio is saying no.' It's depressing, but I understand. People are investing a lot of money and they want somewhat of a guarantee; they want someone who's been on the cover of magazines.

  

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• There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Good
  • Conscience
  • Dictates