Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

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• Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.

  

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• Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

  

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• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

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• I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.

  

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• I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.

  

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• American literature has always been immigrant.

  

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• For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

  

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• The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

  

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• People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

  

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• I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

  

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• I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

  

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• If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.

  

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• Nonne emori per virtutem praestat quam vitam miseram atque inhonestam, ubi alienae superbiae ludibrio fueris, per dedecus amittere?

  

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• For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.

  

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• No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.

  

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• The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.

  

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• There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent.But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

  

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• Politics is a game of compromise.

  

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• 'I think I know it all, relatively speaking.'

  

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• I'm so OCD about prep work and learning lines and stuff.

  

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• Jail was terrible. It was a nightmare.

  

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• It has very little to do with my work, but if your image is not sexy enough, people won't listen. It's part of the game.

  

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• The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Game
  • Human Life
  • Feature