Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
Yitzhak Rabin -
I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field -
I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
Becky G -
Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.
Abraham Verghese -
I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
Tao Okamoto
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I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
Fat Joe -
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter Bagehot -
Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
Orlando Bloom -
I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.
Rachel Platten -
I love Michelle Williams. I think she's extraordinary. I was such a fan of 'Blue Valentine,' and I heard stories about how Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams worked on that. They lived together for a period of time as rehearsal. From nine in the morning to five at night, living in a space together. The work is really awe-inspiring.
Mahershala Ali -
I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.
Ed Weeks
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I read YA novels constantly, so I really want to be in a young adult rom-com, but I worry that I'm aging into the parent role, which is a little scary.
Katee Sackhoff -
My job was to build, and that's still my job - and I like that better than interviews.
A. James Clark -
Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.
Aage Bohr -
Resist. Come, you’re tough enough, my lady, aren’t you, if you beg for death rather than inflict evil?
Tanith Lee -
One of the biggest lies in capitalism is that companies like competition. They don't. Nobody likes competition.
Eliot Spitzer -
An undevout astronomer is mad.
Edward Young
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce -
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
Hanif Kureishi -
Chin up, shoulders back. Let ‘em know you’re here. #ProudOfWhoYouAre
Ian Bohen -
Humanity’s moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely…
Cheikh Anta Diop -
Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.
Claire Cook -
Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.
Simone de Beauvoir