Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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At Oracle, silver medal is first loser.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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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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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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My own line, exclusive pieces. I’ve already started developing it, but for now I’m focused on doing one-off pieces just for me. I want to get into acting, I want to get into production, and I want to invest in houses. When I get money, I want to use it wisely. All that money doesn’t last forever.
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Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
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Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
