Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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I still keep my accent.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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A book is either autobiography or a novel.
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You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.
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It’s very hard to prosper in this modern economy if you haven’t fully unleashed the potential of your people. And your people’s potential, in part, derives from their ability to express themselves and express new ideas, to try to right wrongs that are taking place in the society.
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Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It’s just easier to handle those with emotions.
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Among the political attitudes that prevail in Germany today, only socialism has the potentiality of inner value and integrity.
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A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.
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My closest friends are the ones who tell me that I'm being dumb or that I'm being wrong.
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Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.
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I don't have to write jokes. I don't have to write insults. If you ask the man of the hour in the hot seat, my mere existence is clearly insult enough.
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When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
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A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?
