Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• It's better to do a film that works.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Better
  • Works

• Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Why
  • Door
  • Speak

• Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • You
  • Unique

• I am healthy and happy.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Country
  • Power
  • Economic

• The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Charm

• My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Morning
  • Road
  • Son

• The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Up
  • Work
  • Help

• It was always my dream to write for a living.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Living

• Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Fate
  • Fly

• As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Good
  • News
  • Entrepreneur

• My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Think
  • Always
  • Punk

• There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Team
  • Always

• The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Great
  • Think
  • Changing

• I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Easily
  • Embarrass

• A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Band
  • Face

• Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • People
  • Want
  • Funny

• The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.

  

  David Cassidy
  • People
  • Money

• If you're undercover for two or three years, I think you lose your private life.

  

  Baran Odar
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Years

• There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Time
  • History
  • Never

• Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again.

  

  Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
  • History

• The bottom line is people are people, and the sooner we realise that, the better off things are going to be.

  

  Dennis Haysbert
  • People

• Each person has his or her own very particular history and after all, the unconscious is the most secret part of ourselves.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • History
  • Unconscious
  • Secret Part