Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
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I am always fascinated by India.
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
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I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.
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People want fashion from us, whereas they might buy core styles from other designers.
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Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
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There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.
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A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.
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In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.
