Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
-
The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
-
I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
-
Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
-
Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.
-
'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
-
My brother and I have always had this theory that, as stupid as it sounds, in video games, there is a certain hand-eye coordination and a thought process that you can learn.
-
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
-
I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
-
America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
-
When I was a kid, they used to say, 'Oh man, you don't ever wanna leave New York.' I don't ever want to stay in New York!
-
I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
-
I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
-
In everyday life, I like APC, Isabel Marant, but I also like Zara. It depends how I'm feeling on the day. I like clothes that have a certain strength to them - simple but graphic.
-
I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
-
How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure.
-
One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.
-
From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.
-
I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math!
-
I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side.
-
To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
-
Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.
-
The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in letting the child have its own will, plunging headlong to destruction with the bits in its mouth. There is no mercy to society nor to the criminal if the wrong is not repressed and the right vindicated. We injure the culprit who comes up to take his proper doom at the bar of justice, if we do not make him feel that he has done a wrong thing. We may deliver his body from the prison, but not at the expense of justice nor to his own injury.
-
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values.
