Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

  

  Ted Williams
  • People
  • Hope
  • Guy

• I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Think
  • Easy
  • Tough

• The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Community
  • Paris
  • Immigrants

• Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Attention
  • Present
  • Immigration

• At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they're thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Up
  • Work
  • Thinking

• At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Peace
  • Purpose

• It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Three

• Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • World
  • You
  • Language

• When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Friends
  • American
  • College

• With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Good
  • You
  • Software

• I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Nature
  • Tree
  • Spring

• My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Free

• What we do is service a story first, and then you figure out how to pay for it later. If the narrative isn't your primary focus, then the movie is going to become diluted, and you don't have a movie that is as good as it could be, so it probably won't make as much money.

  

  Joe Russo
  • Good
  • Money
  • Movie

• I always looked up to Slash from Guns N' Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the guitar, just going crazy.

  

  Amber Rose
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Rock

• I've had the privilege of having a lot of amazing people cook for me.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • People
  • Amazing

• How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • Life
  • Moral

• Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Nation

• One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Family
  • Humor
  • Sense

• Although the capacity to become schizophrenic may well be within all of us, there is no question that certain persons have distinctive genes predisposing them to the condition.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • May
  • Question

• A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Nation
  • Fitness
  • Dependence