Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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I think to just single out a highlight of Elvis's career is pretty much impossible. As far as being a fan of his, a lifetime fan, there were just too many highlights.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
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I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
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At the end of the day, my legacy will not be modelling but my cosmetics line.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?
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It would actually be quite nice if the American ambassador in Britain could pay the charge that everybody else is paying and not actually try and skive out of it like some chiselling little crook.
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People from all over the world were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Centre. They came from many different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu believers were killed together as they worked in the towers.
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We're all weirdly single, middle-aged women with too much money who look to fill the void with too much shopping.
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The summer gig turned into my day job. I was an arts administrator who helped make indie flicks. At the filmmakers' encouragement, I tried shooting a couple of shorts of my own. Directing was stressful, it was not my strength. But writing the scripts and helping others with their scripts - that was a gas. Making stuff up the way I wanted to see it was the biggest kick I ever experienced.
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Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.
