Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I hope they can see that as a consumer, if they express themselves, they may make an impact and leverage their impact on the brands, and the brands can leverage their buying power on tens of thousands of polluters - suppliers - in China.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
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Anything that's for free, people will take. They don't discriminate.
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Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
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The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.
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You are more than now;You are for always.I can see in youMy dreams come true.Don't you ever go away.You make me feel likeThere's nothing I can't do.And when I hold you,I only want to sayI love you.
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.
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You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.
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I am drawn to humorous art that is ironic.
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A powerful studio boss doesn't want to be bested by a woman, even in chess. And a successful agent steps on a lot of toes. You lose actors jobs so you can get them for your own clients.
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The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
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A wise player ought to accept his throws and score them, not bewail his luck.
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The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
