Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.
Dan Hill -
I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
Larry Wilmore -
How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
Parker Posey -
When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
Abhishek Bachchan -
If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
Parker Stevenson -
Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.
Jack Klugman
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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Octavio Paz -
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
Quentin Crisp -
To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
Print is at the very, very top in the fashion business - of course it is.
Natalie Massenet -
Du fond de l'ombre où nous sommes et où vous êtes, vous ne voyez pas beaucoup plus distinctement que nous les radieuses et lointaines portes de l'éden. Seulement les prêtres se trompent. Ces portes saintes ne sont pas derrière nous, mais devant nous.
Victor Hugo -
Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers. There are heroes in the seaweed, There are children in the morning, They are leaning out for love, And they will lean that way forever, While Suzanne holds the mirror.
Leonard Cohen -
I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.' (Piers Morgan Tonight)
Charlie Sheen -
I'm cooking 42 years, and I didn't know bananas are good for my brain.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten -
I have to do a better job of picking the spots where I want to attack and picking the right moment when I need to attack.
Kristaps Porzingis -
I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.
Danielle Fishel -
When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.
Edmund Fuller
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During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the United States, which were outside the battle area, increased one hundred percent.
John Boyd Orr -
Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.
Virginia Postrel -
For Punjabis like me, we have to work a little harder on our body.
Mona Singh -
All oppression creates a state of war.
Simone de Beauvoir