Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Quotes to Explore
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
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When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
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I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.
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I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.
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Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.
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Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.
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'I want to know how many years I got.''Many,' said Ta-Kumsaw. 'Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.'
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Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
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I'm happy to say that my knowledge about Basildon is rather limited, particularly I was there only about three times. All my visits there were with DM and at a time within the early days when I was very interested in photography and always carried a shoulder bag with camera equipment around with me. My most insistent memory of Basildon is to sit in a disgusting pub and to get told I better shouldn't cross my legs and should hide the shoulder bag because otherwise I could be beaten up because someone might think I was a poof.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.
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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
