Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.
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Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
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'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.
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I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
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As far as the 2009 elections go, there has been a serious crackdown on human rights in Iran, a clampdown on the media and the wrongful imprisonment of journalists. So it seems what's happening is the government is going after people who have a voice, people who change society or public opinion.
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I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.
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I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?
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Yes, there's a relaying of internal states that only a novel can achieve. In my view, the novel is one of Europe's greatest gifts to the world. America and Africa collaborated to give the world jazz. We'll call it even.
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Nothing fills us with deep and lasting joy the way that doing a good turn for someone else does. Saving somebody's life, human or animal, is that 'good turn' in spades.
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The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.
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Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.
