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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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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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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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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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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The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the 'superconscious' has already shown me in a story or poem.
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Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard.
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We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.
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We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.
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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.
