Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
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There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is vital precisely because it permits and encourages self-knowledge in a way that is less indirect than fiction, more open and speculative.
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We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.
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I polled members of this council separately and it's generally thought we have to work together. But it was a lack of careful consideration that got us into the situation we're in today.
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'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest
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What we have done though is consistently looked for additional opportunities to get stuff done. Wherever we see a possibility of increasing wages, creating more jobs, making sure that more people are able to access opportunity, we're gonna seize it.
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The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.
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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
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Be relaxed and don't wave the bat, don't clench it. Be ready to hit down with the barrel of the bat. Just swing it and let the weight drive the ball.
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Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.
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Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must've been something before electricity.
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I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.
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Sometimes I have some stuff in my head, man, you wouldn't believe. But I can go to the studio and talk about it. That's my way of releasing.
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Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.
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It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.
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Hopefully with a woman President the double standard will slowly begin to wane.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.