Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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My parents were never condescending to us. They treated us like adults from a very young age.
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The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.
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I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.
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I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that person, a readership of X millions, about things I think are private.
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I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
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Television isn't my career. Business is.
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Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.
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Educated women armed with computers have defeated extremists by denying them a monopoly to define cultural identity and interpret religious texts. No extremist can say that women are inferior to men without being made a laughingstock on Al Jazeera. Islam insisted on equality between everyone.
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I'm constantly saying, 'I read a fascinating article in 'The New Yorker'... ' I say it so often that sometimes I think I have nothing interesting to say myself, I merely regurgitate 'The New Yorker.'
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In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.
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I feel like guys don't think it's cool to use emojis. I'm like, that's so whack. Emojis help so much. They really do give context to something.
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I think I've definitely found a niche working in comedy, but dramatic films are what brought me here. After I saw 'Titanic' in the theater, I got the bug.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards.
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One blade couldn’t win a battle, but as long as it was mine, it could be used to protect me and those I loved.
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It's only arrogance if you're wrong.
