Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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I'm not clever enough or aware enough to make a political movie.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'
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Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
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To contrive a little kingdom, in the midst of the universal muck, then shit on it, ah that was me all over.
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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
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In one respect, it's easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attention than anywhere else. Almost everyone will try a new place once, irrespective of the reviews, because it's a spectator sport.
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Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.
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Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.
