Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
Quotes to Explore
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
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The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.
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If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
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Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.
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I've learned through my own experiences that working toward an objective in your life can change who you are.
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I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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I am very strong. When you have children, you have to be.
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We want to clean up South Africa so that we can begin to make it more attractive to investors but at the same time to deal with the issues that are impeding growth.
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If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.
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'We must ask Kito to come over.'
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When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.
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The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.
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We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
