Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to death, each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.
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I'm not going to starve just to be thin... I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable.
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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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You can't promulgate injustice without consequences.
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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'But girls often marry when they are too young,' exclaimed Mary-Marie quickly; 'so, if you don't object to my age - '
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I can move any crowd.
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But I'd made up my mind early on in life that I never wanted to be a mother.
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If I don't get a TV show next year because someone looks up my Wikipedia and it says 'openly gay,' then it's worth the risk because I've had so many years being openly gay and proud of myself as a role model.
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I went to high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, which in hindsight was very nice.
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.
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A sensible man should not demand of me, or hope that when we mention a subject, we shall make a complete exposition of it.
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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
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In quella parte del libro de la mia memoria... si trova una rubrica la quale dice: Incipit vita nova.
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The misfortune is that although everyone must come to death, each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.
