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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There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
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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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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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Nonne emori per virtutem praestat quam vitam miseram atque inhonestam, ubi alienae superbiae ludibrio fueris, per dedecus amittere?
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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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All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'paycheck to paycheck.' Studies show that every household wastes 10% or more of its salary or income on unnecessary expenditures or by not taking the time to shop for better prices. It's all a matter of proper budgeting.
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Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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I feel very grateful that I have never had to be or ever chosen to be or accidentally found myself to be in the space of the other woman.
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Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
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I remember the first Mortal Kombat, when that came out, that was the hardest game of all time. There would be lines at the arcade around the block, and I still love all of the Mortal Kombat games.
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Obviously, in WWE, everyone is on top of their 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.
