Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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The idea of not being able to control my own fertility genuinely terrifies me. That one mistake might change your life. That everything I am, and do, could be ended by the repeal of laws our mothers fought so hard for, that women had waited for the entire span of humanity to come about.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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In other periods of depression it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look about, I now see nothing to give ground for hope - nothing of man. But there is still religion, which is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That continues as a solid basis for hope and courage.
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
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Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.
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I actually believed if I behaved myself and if I made straight A's and if I was good enough, I could save my dad's life. And every single time he had a heart attack, I knew what I had done that caused it.
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When I first started as a cover band, I built everything based on hanging out every night after the shows and talking to as many people as I can and making relationships.
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I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.
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Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
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If it proceeds as commercial development, I'd like to see it annexed. It could bring jobs, help the tax burden and bring us our own small airport.
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Even the good angels, I think, would inspire in humans some sort of fear.
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Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.
