Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.Simone de Beauvoir
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
Bassem Youssef -
My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
Barbara Hepworth -
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.
Gavin Hood -
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G. Harding -
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis
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The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.
Ramana Maharshi -
As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.
Patrick deWitt -
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm Cowley -
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.
Vanessa Paradis
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Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.
Lara Pulver -
For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
Abraham Lincoln -
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
Oscar Wilde -
The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.
Walter Benjamin -
Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached. Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.
Eric Clapton Cream -
Wipe out the imagination. Stop pulling the strings. Confine thyself to the present. ...Divide and distribute every object into the causal formal and the material. ...Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.
Marcus Aurelius
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I only eat meat if I go to a nice restaurant and there is an exceptional dish, or if I'm at somebody's home for a dinner, I'll eat whatever is in front of me. Otherwise, I don't eat anything that walks around and has a face.
Bryan Fuller -
Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.
Kingsley Amis -
I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
Tahereh Mafi -
My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
Irwin Shaw -
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
Simone de Beauvoir