Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.
Quotes to Explore
-
I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
-
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
-
I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
-
I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
-
I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.
-
The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
-
Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
-
The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
-
I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
-
I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
-
I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
-
I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
-
No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
-
Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
-
I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.
-
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
-
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
-
Prince and I happen to think alike.
-
A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
-
That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.
-
Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
-
I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.
-
I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.
-
Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.
