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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Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.
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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
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What he's doing now, he has proven he could do that over his whole career. He has worked hard to get back and now he's happy, healthy and used to playing the way he always has.
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The dilemma is this: We all know that this aid cannot materially affect the course of events of China. We are obliged to put the bill before Congress by virtue of our past commitments and of the pressures that exist in favor of aid to China.
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Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".
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As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.
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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.
