Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!
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The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
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Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
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Form follows beauty.
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When you wake up in the morning looking for the light, the light will come.
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The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.
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A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered
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Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.
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I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.
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Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies.
