Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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Work is so much fun that it doesn't really seem like downtime when I'm not. But cooking, spending time with my family, friends and dog are what I'm usually doing when I'm not working on something.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
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I had maybe heard 'The Times Are A-Changing' on the radio, but I had no idea who Dylan was. No idea.
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A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
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President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.
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It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.
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The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.
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The fun thing we get to do is mess around playing all sorts of different people. People that really existed, people that exist in a book - whom people love and have a specific idea of who they are, and you kind of have to work with that - or people that you can take a completely fresh look at.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.
