Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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I pick the wrong kinds of guys, but they're so hot.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
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Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
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Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?
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A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain
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The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
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Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were times I didn't feel I had the right friends. My grades were only so-so.
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Well,” Naomi said cheerfully, “what’s the worst that can happen?” They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook.
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To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.
