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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• When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

  

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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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• I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.

  

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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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• I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.

  

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• I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.

  

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• You’d better come early son because I’ve got a lot of work to do on the property and don’t want to get behind.

  

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  • Son
  • Property

• 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