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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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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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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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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Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face. Sometimes, I think he turns 10 to 15 years younger when I deliver a hit.
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The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
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There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.
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Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.
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History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.
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History is but the polemics of the victor.
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The demise of Reconstruction had made it hard for blacks to acquire capital or to pass on property to their children. As blacks were driven from all but the most limited spheres of business and political life, the prestige of the professional rose in the black community.
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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
