Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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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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I'll fill those canyons in your soul, like a river lead you home. And I'll walk a step behind, in the shadows so you shine. Just ask, it will be done and I will prove my love, until you're sure that I'm the one.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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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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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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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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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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Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
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One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I've done nothing. I've done nothing. I mean that sincerely.
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We tried to present an emotional scrapbook of what it felt like to be a band member on this 20-year journey.
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A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.
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Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
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He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-“ You'd do that to your five-year-old sister?“ I gasp in mock outrage. For one whole night alone? Jesus, Maya, I'd sell her to the gypsies!
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
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I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.
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Most of the time when musicians get together, there's always that variance - always someone's a little ahead of the beat, someone's a little behind, you just hope it meshes.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
