Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
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In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.
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We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!'
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
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The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.
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This isn't about grabbing people's guns; this isn't about changing the Second Amendment. This simply says that someone who is on the terrorist watch list - a dangerous terrorist - should not be able to purchase a gun.
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How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?
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Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.
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It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
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If in the coming days the situation does not change, we need to take additional extraordinary measures, including at the highest level
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There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able to reduce homelessness among veterans. It's a pretty shameful situation.
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
