Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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I still keep my accent.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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'The Larry Sanders Show,' it's actually about love, which would sound like a paradox at first. But if that love didn't exist, the darker attitudes would not play. You would have a one-dimensional, cynical show, which I don't think the show was.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
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That's the first sign you know you're a Libertarian. You see the red light. You stop. You realize that there's not a car in sight. And you put your foot on the gas.
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My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.
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In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually be analysed, but not always, nor always without remainder.
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Don't ever insult a Chicano about being a Chicano because then all the other Chicanos will be on you with a vengeance. They will even fight each to be first in line to support you.
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A Jewish convert said to me once, 'The Communists hate God, and the Catholics love Him. But they are both facing Him, directing their attention to Him. They are not indifferent. Communists are not in so bad a case as those who are indifferent. It is the lukewarm that He will spew out of His mouth.'
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AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
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But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.
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Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.
