Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.

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• I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Want
  • Talk
  • Little Girls

• I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Family
  • School
  • Think

• Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Time
  • American
  • Too Much

• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Important
  • Small
  • Choose

• A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Family
  • Movie

• This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Home
  • Together
  • Earth

• We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • World
  • Crisis
  • Refugee

• There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Country
  • Family

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Me
  • Might
  • Entrepreneur

• He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Good
  • Busy

• Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Apple

• I'm very active, wild woman.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Woman
  • Active
  • WIld

• I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Up
  • God
  • Remember

• I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Years
  • Old
  • Over

• A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • World
  • Great
  • Why

• Some players are quite homely, and they don't see themselves going abroad; others would relish the challenge. I can only speak personally, but I always wanted the challenge, and to go and live in a place like Barcelona was great.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Great
  • Live
  • Challenge

• I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Book
  • Amazing
  • Flying

• Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • May

• Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

  

  Fred Allen
  • Men
  • Done

• My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Life
  • Book
  • Dream

• No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Crime
  • Vulgar

• I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Women
  • I Think
  • Understood