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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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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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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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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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 didn't know you were Catholic. (to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as he got down on one knee to beg Pelosi to find Democratic support for the bailout bill)-2008
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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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Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.
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The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
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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.
