Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside.
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
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Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.
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Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
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I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.
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I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.
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Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
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That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
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My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.
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A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone special; you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.
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Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.
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We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
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Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.
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Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a train, and a lesser world whenever she went for a walk.
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I read 'Whiplash,' and I wanted to do it.
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Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn’t catch their eye they won’t bother to read what’s inside.
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Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy.
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I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside.
