Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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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.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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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.
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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.
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I believe we're the party of small business.
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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.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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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.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
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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.
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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.
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.
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I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.
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After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - it's dead important.
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I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.