Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • May
  • Character

• I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Trying
  • Thoughts
  • Enjoy

• At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out of foster care, defining what they need, and giving a community of supporters a simple and clear way to fulfill those needs, we can produce radically improved outcomes for youth.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Believe
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• A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Think

• 'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Character
  • Success

• I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Never
  • Jump

• Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • You
  • Pain
  • Humble

• What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mother
  • Weird
  • Fly

• With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Fight
  • Knew
  • Won

• Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Fun
  • Movies
  • Cancer

• I cook chicken for a living.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Living
  • Cook
  • Chicken

• I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Three
  • Five
  • Wives

• One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Work
  • America
  • Color

• I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Time
  • Good
  • Find

• I think there are brilliant jokes to be made about abortion, and we should be able to talk about this in the way that we make jokes about death - you should be able to make jokes about everything.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Think
  • Death
  • Abortion

• I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Writing
  • Past

• Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Good
  • Me
  • Keep

• I definitely love record stores. And worked in many over the years. Having said that, it's not necessarily that I love vinyl per se. I mean, I'm happy to use CDs and MP3s: to me, it's the music that's top priority. I do have a good collection of vinyl, but I rarely actually pull it out.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • Good
  • Music
  • Happy

• Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Business
  • Help
  • Small

• The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come in here and watch that film. I'm trying to get better.

  

  Ezekiel Elliott
  • Film
  • Criticism
  • Get Better

• Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Love
  • Person
  • Difference

• It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.

  

  Benedict of Nursia
  • Soul
  • Abstinence
  • Abandons

• The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this earth. It's not going be, "It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl." But, really and truly what you're going to leave this earth is the influence on others.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Person
  • Role
  • Possess