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.Simone de Beauvoir
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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.
Gautam Gambhir -
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.
Carine Roitfeld -
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
Major Taylor -
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.
Quentin Tarantino -
I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
Calvin Klein -
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.
Edmund Morgan
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Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.
Tatjana Patitz -
I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
Laura Esquivel -
Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. Forster -
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot -
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.
Barton Gellman -
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!'
Parker Posey
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
Carl Sandburg -
The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.
Imran Khan -
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.
Ted Deutch -
How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?
Kapil Sibal -
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.
Barry Ritholtz -
My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.
Linda Ronstadt
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It’s hard to forget, but forgiveness is something you do for yourself.
Azim Khamisa -
You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.
Dan Abrams -
It's almost like I get to be more theatrical when I work in voiceover.
Virginia Madsen -
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
Milan Kundera -
I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.
J. R. Smith -
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
Simone de Beauvoir