Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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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.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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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.
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Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
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In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don't do most of the stuff that is out there, but it's a joy and a pleasure to do anything that promotes this higher power - this light, if you will. I just think there aren't enough projects in the world that do that.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
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As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.
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When I read history, I [see] what typically happens to presidents and the other party during tumultuous times and how people react when the economy is collapsing and they're losing their homes, losing their pensions - it sort of tracks, what ended up happening, because some of that is human nature.
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It is in great part the anxiety of being a woman that devastates the feminine body.
