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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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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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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High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from bone and therefore decreased bone density.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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The McDonald's icon of the colours and the golden arch, for me, resonates as one of the most iconic images ever.
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History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.
