Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.
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Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.
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I have parents and family who will never allow me not to be grounded. If I thought for a second that I could possibly lift off the ground, I have a thousand people who will grab my ankles.
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Jerry Rice had won two Super Bowls already by the time he got to his ninth year in the league. That's what it's all about: winning that ring.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
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When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
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Trump is an anathema to America's democracy and values.
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I'm not scared of dying And I, don't really care If it' s peace you find in dyingWell then, let the time be near.
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I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.
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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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'And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.'
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We procrastinated in the U.S., it's true. And we are changing that.
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A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.
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Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.
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I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
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But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.
