Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.

  

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• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

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• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

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• I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.

  

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• Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.

  

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• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  

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• Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.

  

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• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

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• There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.

  

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• The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.

  

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• Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.

  

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• Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off.

  

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• As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

  

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• What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.

  

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• I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

  

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• I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.

  

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• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

  

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• For me, having a balance between work and personal life is very important.

  

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• If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don't know them, they want me home by 9 P.M. If I have work, then I don't have a deadline. I don't argue with them. That's how I have been raised, and I'm happy with it.

  

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• If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Work
  • Words
  • Unconsciously