Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
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I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.
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I always try to give my songs as gifts.
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I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
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I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the independent movie 'Delirium.' Director Lee Roy Kunz was looking everywhere for a Russian actress. He saw my photos, and only then he learned where I starred before! Eventually, I spent several months in the U.S., and we made the film quickly.
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The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.
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I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
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Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.
