Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'
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I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
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And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
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Everything starts from a dot.
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It's pretty amazing to me that my first hit record was an Elvis Presley record.
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For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.
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A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
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I feel very meditative when I ride. A horse does not know whether my movie is a hit or a flop or what is happening in my relationship.
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We are no longer the same, you wiser but not sadder, and I sadder but not wiser, for wiser I could hardly become without grave personal inconvenience, whereas sorrow is a thing you can keep adding to all your life long, is it not, like a stamp or an egg collection, without feeling very much the worse for it, is it not.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
