Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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I know what poverty is.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.
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My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
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When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'
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If Hillary's the first woman president, well, in England we already know what a Margaret Thatcher is. It's not an end unto itself to be the first woman president.
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Like will to like.
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Literature is always what the dominant ideology recognizes as literature.
