Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.Simone de Beauvoir
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I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.
Warwick Davis -
Recent studies have shown that our creativity is increased by 60% when we're walking. I encourage my workshop participants to write at their desks but think on their feet.
Kate Klise -
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.
Aaron Patzer -
We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
Mac Thornberry -
I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
Aaron Allston -
My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
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I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
Kabir Bedi -
I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.
Gabriel Basso -
I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.
Frances Conroy -
We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet.
Pat Roberts -
Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.
Hamish Bowles -
In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.
Kate Chopin
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I wouldn't want to be someone's roommate, that's for sure. You can't do certain things: you can't leave the bathroom door open... you can't put your feet on the couch, you can't hide stuff in the couch.
J. B. Smoove -
We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.
W. Averell Harriman -
When you're throwing the football the way you want to, you're not thinking about it. You're not thinking about your drop or your release point or the trajectory or where your feet are. It's just coming off your hand exactly the way you want it to, fluid and confident.
Aaron Rodgers -
We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.
Orville Wright -
I don't like one-foot jumpers like LeBron James. It looks better jumping off two feet. Every time Michael Jordan jumped off two feet, it looked so much better.
Nate Robinson -
My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.
Adele
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I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.
Paul Auster -
As long as our independence is not achieved, it remains to be achieved.
Gaston Miron -
A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.
Michael Easton -
I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.
Milton Berle -
The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.
Simone de Beauvoir