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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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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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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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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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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My job is all about defending the people that I play.
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The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothing of any consequence to be desired. It is the first time I have ever been connected with any works that I could say it is finished and complete and to my entire satisfaction.
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I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini Pomodoro is my best: it's a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds me of getting married in Italy.
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If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.
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For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.
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to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
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In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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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?
