Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.

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• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Information

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • Trump
  • Reasonable

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Wine

• After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Help
  • Energy
  • Working

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Writing
  • Culture
  • Food

• We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • World
  • Change
  • Space

• I believe we're the party of small business.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Small

• I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Politics
  • Exist
  • Well

• Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Hurt

• No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Think
  • Me
  • Fancies

• But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • School
  • Sex
  • Movies

• I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • World
  • Small
  • Rest

• I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from Japan. Japanese developers can be very different from companies here in the western market.

  

  Laura Bailey
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• The quality of festival Q&As is often a matter of chance. Sometimes the lights come up on movies I loved, and not a single meaningful question is asked. Sometimes it's the opposite.

  

  Yance Ford
  • Up
  • Question
  • Single

• I got out while they were still fighting to buy tickets to hear me. I believe in getting out when you're on top, and that's what I did.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • Believe
  • Fighting

• I've always been unhappy with my teeth. I've lost most of them from my bottom jaw, and those in the upper jaw have been screwed in or capped. As a result, I've got great hollows under my cheeks, and my bone structure seems accentuated.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Great
  • Lost
  • Unhappy

• How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies?  The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,-all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Life
  • Time
  • Spring

• There's not enough time in each day to really focus enough attention on any one thing, but I'm doing my best. I have a great group of people who support me, and I don't sleep a lot. It's like I'm on a constantly spinning merry-go-round, and every day, I'm wondering when it will stop so I can get off. I love what I do, so that helps a lot.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Great
  • Loved
  • Vanished