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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I'd say for us, obviously we have a long way to go. We're going to have to go home. We've got a lot of work to do.
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The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them - when they feel understood by you - that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.
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And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.
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The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!
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You just go through highs and lows as an individual payer and as a team.
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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?
