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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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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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
