Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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I had all of one nanosecond to savor the news before we had to move on to other problems.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
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I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.
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If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.
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Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
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Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.
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It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
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What would people say if I had only asked to ban Muslim clothing? They would burn me as a Muslim hater.
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The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.
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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
