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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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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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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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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It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
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When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
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I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
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More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
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I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.
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Fear of women love more than hate the man.
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I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through The growing waters; it unmans one quite, Especially when life is rather new.
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I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government, in a democratic society. It's a challenge for school reformers, like reformers in any realm, to build a popular constituency for their work. If the people it's supposed to benefit vote against it, that tells me that the person pushing reform lacks political skill. And political skill is a good thing.
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Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.
