Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?
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Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.
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Shooting in Orlando is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation, is an attack on all of us and on the fundamental values of equality and dignity that define us as a country. And no act of hate or terror will ever change who we are or the values that make us Americans.
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I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible.
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It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.
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Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world and thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears.
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If anyone was in my shoes and they were offered what I was offered, they wouldn't turn it down either.
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No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.
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Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself.
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One of the biggest problems that we have right now is that in some areas of the State we cannot get additional jobs created because they say the housing costs are too high.
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You've got to play with that killer instinct, man. You've got to hate that guy across from you. Then after the game is over, tell him what a nice guy he is. Shake his hand. Especially if you win.
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Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn’t deal with at the cross. You do not have anything special that has been dealt out to you.
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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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When the Liberals said they were going to create a million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be tax collectors. If you can't convince them, confuse them.
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If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.
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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
