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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The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don’t think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it.
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I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.
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I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.
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The reason we can't attain the highest level of knowledge while incarnate is that we can't then wholly escape the influence of the body (and so of perception and of certain desires that take us away from thinking properly); and that prevents us from understanding fully what forms are, which one must do in order to have the highest level of knowledge.
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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.
