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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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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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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I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
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We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.
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Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger.
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Everything is always happening all at once, in the present tense, forever, the beginning and the end and the denouement and the remaindering.
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All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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What I try with my own stuff is to work the poem to a slow climax through a series of quiet painful dissonances.
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We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.
