Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in another way.Simone de Beauvoir
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
Adam Goldberg -
People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.
Madchen Amick -
As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
Hank Stram -
Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
Pat Gillick -
My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
Karan Johar
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
Marat Safin -
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra -
If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
Olivia Wilde -
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
T-Pain -
I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
Wayne McGregor -
I never sing in the shower either.
Barbra Streisand
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
Harrison Ford -
Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
Ira Glass -
When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those. Every once in a while, I'll look at video starts that I struggled, and sometimes in those, there is no mechanical problems; it's just, didn't have good stuff that day.
Jacob deGrom -
Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
Sam Graves -
I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
Sally Kellerman -
It's kind of funny, with all of the different outlets that come from acting that you could try, I would love to direct and kind of be involved in art direction, too.
Imogen Poots
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When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.
Coco Lee -
I'm an all or nothing kind of girl. When I give my heart, I give myself totally.
Jiah Khan -
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
Paulo Coelho -
There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she will speak of it in exactly the same way as a man. But if she speaks of her own personal problems as a woman, she will obviously speak in another way.
Simone de Beauvoir