Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
Jack Kemp
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
Rainbow Rowell
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
Rafael dos Anjos
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
Edmund Phelps
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
Taylor Hackford
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. Somerset Maugham
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
Walt Alston
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
Victoria Pendleton
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My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.
Olivia Colman
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When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
Eberhard Weber
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
Sam Worthington
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
Edmund White
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
Calvin Trillin
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If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.
Don Young
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It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
Taylor Swift
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When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
Nawal El Saadawi
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
Simone de Beauvoir
