Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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I have no mouth, and I must scream.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.
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There's a consequence for everything, and that goes back to the Bible for me.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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I do believe that our ability to jam the Trump brand is somewhat limited. I think we can chip away at it, but ultimately, the way to undermine the Trump brand is a better product in the political marketplace, if you'll forgive the capitalist metaphor.
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My parents did everything possible. My dad has worked from eight in the morning until nine in the evening to make it possible so I can play tennis. We had to cancel tournaments because we couldn't afford to go there.
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There are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I'm selective about what I want to share with the world now.
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.
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It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.
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Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.
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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
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Our society is driven today by so much ethnic discord. We have Black Lives Matter, which I praise and celebrate. We have the demagogues stereotyping Muslims and resurrecting racist stereotypes they used to visit on us. The larger goal is to show that we are all the same, we all come from Africa, and we all have the same larger family tree. It's about the fundamental unity of the human community.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.
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Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.
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There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.
