Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Good
  • Art
  • Details

• I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Winter
  • Legs
  • Spider

• One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Chaos

• The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • American
  • Law
  • Government

• The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Time
  • Art
  • Space

• I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Different
  • Something

• Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Head
  • Feet
  • Window

• My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Childhood

• Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Shy
  • Burn
  • Dolly Parton

• I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Dress

• I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • People
  • School
  • College

• You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • You
  • Model
  • Old

• Our economy has been at risk by investment schemes aimed at making not just a few, but many extra dollars, and we need to start insisting on the right rules and transparency so this doesn't happen again.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Risk

• Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Rain

• We didn't raise this issue, the courts raised it. The courts jammed it down our throats, at the risk of insulting any of my gay male fans.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Risk
  • Gay

• Si yo fuera quien se conduce a sí mismo, no iría por la senda que conduce a morir.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Peace
  • Justice

• I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.

  

  Burton Richter
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Failure

• I am a person of faith, so I come from a community that's involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is an institution that could, in a relatively short period of time, provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of positive male role models.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Time
  • Country
  • Faith

• I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • School
  • Past
  • Texas

• I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.

  

  William A. Dembski
  • Evil
  • Suffering
  • Doubt

• There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Future
  • Existence
  • Justification