Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.Simone de Beauvoir
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
Olga Kurylenko -
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
Felix Dennis -
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
W. H. Auden -
It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
Gao Xingjian -
There is no one true church.
Pat Buckley -
The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
Dana Brunetti
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
Abraham Cahan -
I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
Sam Smith -
TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
Sally Phillips -
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
Earl Scruggs -
I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
Edie McClurg -
I just don't let music genres define me.
Bebe Rexha
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I'm very religious.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.
Earl Blumenauer -
You can over analyze anything. I constantly have to tell myself, 'Sabrina, stop thinking.' There are people who are just analytical. It's part of your gene makeup, or too much caffeine.
Sabrina Lloyd -
There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren't competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We're all of these things. We're complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.
Naomi Klein -
In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.
Yann Martel -
If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.
Captain Beefheart
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
Ian Mckellen -
Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.
Clive Thompson -
To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
Charles Horton Cooley -
You’re not just out of your body; you’re out of your mind, too.
Philip K. Dick -
I also think that employees these days expect less of a separation of work and personal life. That doesn't mean that work tasks should encroach upon our personal time, but it does mean that employees today expect more from the companies for whom they work. Why shouldn't your workplace reflect your values? Why is "giving back" not a part of our jobs? The answer for us is to integrate philanthropy with work.
Marc Benioff -
For years I thought my work still lay ahead, and now I find it is behind me: there was no moment when it took place.
Simone de Beauvoir