Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
Oscar Wilde
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
Vanna Bonta
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
Sam Altman
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
Naguib Mahfouz
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When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.
Katey Sagal
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I'm not a materialistic person.
Marat Safin
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Fighting Manny Pacquiao in the future - there's possibilities it could happen. But whatever happens in the future happens in the future.
Canelo Alvarez
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
Irving Babbitt
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
Edmund White
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Awe and respect are two different things.
Oliver Reed
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
Jackie Evancho
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The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
Warren Farrell
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In manufacturing food for its own cells, the plant is producing a supply of food that will be available for the sustenance of animal cells also. Thus the entire animal World may be said to be a vast parasitic colony as absolutely dependent upon the vegetable colony for its essential food supplies as any other parasite is dependent upon its host.
Luther Burbank
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It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.
Kristin Scott Thomas
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If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Mason Cooley
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St. Louis is the best thing that ever happened to me. I needed that peace in my life. And I've always been a semi-country boy.
Dennis Edwards The Temptations
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I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.
Alistair Brownlee
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The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space.
James R. Clapper
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What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.
Winnie Byanyima
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We became a really good gateway band for all the kids that went on to love My Chem or Fall Out Boy.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson
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We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.
Simone de Beauvoir