Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

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Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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Actors make less than you think.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.
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The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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I'm not in the business of changing policies. I hope to inform, not form, decisions.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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I don't feel any connection to Russia.
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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
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Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.
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Unfortunately, it is possible in the coming days that we will see additional cases of Ebola.
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All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.