Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
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Never give a sucker an even break.
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I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
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I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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Mostly for social media, Twitter or Instagram becomes so much more fun when you can be boastful and say whatever you want. You can be so full of yourself and ridiculous when you're a heel.
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It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
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When we show you all these various pieces of content on the site, how frequently do you take the one that we present? And of the one you took, how frequently do you completely watch the whole series? And do you rate it, one to five stars? So if we presented it to you, and you watched it, and you rated it, that's a big win.
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I've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.
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He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time.
