Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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So many people are of mixed heritage; everyone is from somewhere else.
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I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.
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I'm very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.
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I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
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Spend 5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another.
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Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
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The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corruption and error hardwired at inception.
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Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.
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No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself
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Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’
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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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True Detective is an intense show, even in terms of the dialogue - there's a little rhythm to it, in particular in his monologues. I think on those days, he Woody Harrelson really had to stay in the zone. Because there's a certain cadence in which that character speaks and talks about life, you know? But then there are other days that he was able to be a little more loose.
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You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.
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One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds. Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere.
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I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.
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I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then.
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Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.
