Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
Keinan Abdi Warsame
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
Taylor Swift
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Octavio Paz
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
Beck
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America is a meritocracy.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
Kage Baker
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
Jack McDevitt
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Drifting in and out, you see the road you’re onIt came rolling down the cheekSay just what you need in between, it’s never as it seems
Victoria Legrand Beach House
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'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
Ayn Rand
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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Henry David Thoreau
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Dice il proverbio, ch'a trovar si vannoGli uomini spesso, e i monti fermi stanno.
Ludovico Ariosto
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Si no creyera que el sol me mira un poco, no lo miraría.
Antonio Porchia
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McMaster, 54, is the smartest and most capable military officer of his generation, one who has not only led American victories on the battlefields of the 1991 Gulf War and of the Iraq War, but also holds a Ph.D. in history.
Peter Bergen
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I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
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I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.
Jason Silva
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Singing and dancing will never grow old for me - I'd like to do that until I'm... actually, I think I'd like to drop dead onstage. I think that'd be just great.
Blythe Danner
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I have always been a workaholic.
Jewel Kilcher
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In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
Alice Waters
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Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.
David Lee Roth Van Halen
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A sleveless errand.
John Heywood
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You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!
Witold Gombrowicz
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Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life.
T. E. Lawrence
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I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.
Martin Parr
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Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
Simone de Beauvoir