Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
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Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
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I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
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Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
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My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
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If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
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I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
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I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.
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The teacher must adopt the role of facilitator not content provider.
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How many more cars, clothes, toys and trinkets do we really need before we wake up and realize that half the world goes to bed every night with empty stomachs and naked bodies?
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Lucy: I don't understand men. Nettie: What is there to understand? If you feed 'em regular-like and give 'em a bit of 'sugar' now and then, they're easy enough. And if they don't behave, you just toss 'em out on their arses. That's what I always say.
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The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.
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Selling his new book about this phony baloney war on Christmas, John revealed a very ugly side to himself. He is one of those people who think all religions but his are mistaken. You know, the way a lot of these religious nut bag terrorists think.
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We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
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I think creativity is a capability of human being. When we're born, we're - all of us has this capability. But part of us forget to use it.
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I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.
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Having this message of sobriety and recovery to blast out into the world is also very powerful and kind of the reason why I'm on this planet, I think; it's one of my purposes.
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
