Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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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'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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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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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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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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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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I know Not these my hands And yet I think there was A woman like me once had hands Like these.
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In Cornwall, it is quite possible to take a stride from the richest vegetation into the abomination of desolation. It has been said in mockery that Cornwall does not grow wood enough to make coffins for the people.
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Well, it was evident that in ordinary cases, having tired one’s host, one would go away. But was this quite an ordinary case? She couldn’t think so. She couldn’t help remembering, though it was a thing she never thought of, that she had made way without difficulty for Stephen to come and live in this very house, giving him everything—why, with both hands giving him everything—and she couldn’t help feeling that to be allowed to stay in it for a few days, or even weeks, wasn’t so very much to want of him. Not that he didn’t allow her to stay in it; he was still assiduous in all politenesses, opening doors, and lighting candles, and so on. It was only that she knew he was tired of her; tired to the point of no longer being able to speak when she was there.
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Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.
