Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

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• I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Father
  • Childhood
  • Lifestyle

• I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Thought

• The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
  • Today
  • Stand
  • Left

• As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Different
  • Trying

• You go on Facebook, you buy social advertising. And you can very cost-effectively target people who are in the market for your product from all over the world.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • People
  • World
  • Advertising

• To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Character
  • True
  • Man

• Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th, 2009 when a television commentator named Rick Santelli stood up and said what the hell are we doing bailing out people who couldn't afford a mortgage by taking money from people like me who are prudent?

  

  Karl Rove
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Career
  • Funny

• To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Country
  • Love
  • Lovely

• I have played a lot of roles in my career where I'm the sexual interest. I'm always having to fight that.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Career
  • Always
  • Fight

• Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Water
  • Taken
  • Hurt

• What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Time
  • Book
  • Favourite

• National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Write
  • Identity
  • Inside

• The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Father

• The bars would have to provide places for people to dispose of cigarette butts outside. People would be smoking near the entrances, which may not look good to non-smokers.

  

  Andrew Brown
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Respect
  • Perfect
  • Effort

• We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Evil
  • Opinion
  • False Opinion

• One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Turns
  • Lady
  • Conceived