Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

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

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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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• Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.

  

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• I was one of the first people to join Facebook in February of 2004, and launched one of the inaugural applications on the platform in May 2007.

  

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• The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.

  

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• Donna, donna, dark, Stooping in indigo gown And cloudy constellations, Conceal yourself or disclose Fewest things to the lover - A hand that bears a thick-leaved fruit, A pungent bloom against your shade.

  

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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