Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
Oscar Niemeyer -
It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
Om Puri -
I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
E. M. Forster -
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
Samantha Bond -
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.
W. Bruce Cameron
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
Oliver Reed -
At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
Iggy Pop -
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Zhuangzi -
Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
Yuri Andropov -
My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
Sally Kirkland -
I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
Frances Beinecke
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
Oscar Robertson -
Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I'm easy to hate. I get it.
Olivia Munn -
One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce.
Kate Williams -
I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
Ted Lange
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I didn't take music seriously in the beginning. It just kind of a hobby to me. It was something that I love doing for fun.
Yuna -
But Lebanon will never be ruled from Syria. This will no longer happen.
Rafik Hariri -
A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
Simone de Beauvoir