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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It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.
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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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The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future, concentrated into Gertrude's voice, became one of red clay pine-barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.
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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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So dazzling was the spread of constellations that it had the impact of a vision, of some hidden insight. I drove home saying to myself: The dead, too, are like this, blazing within us - invisibly.
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I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.
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I want to work in art forever.
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With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
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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.
