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.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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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.
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America is a meritocracy.
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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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
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'Free competition enforced by law' is a grotesque contradiction in terms.
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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
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Dice il proverbio, ch'a trovar si vannoGli uomini spesso, e i monti fermi stanno.
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Si no creyera que el sol me mira un poco, no lo miraría.
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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.
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I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.
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I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology.
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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.
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I have always been a workaholic.
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In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
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Boston will always be home to me.
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Because I'm on the phone, Mom!" "Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that?" "Ahmadinejad." "Oh, my goodness! What is he saying?" "That he wants to see Jeezy at the Beacon tonight. Putin's going too. He scalped a ticket from Kim Jong Il. All tha gangstas are going." "Don't be so fresh, young man!" "Gotta go," he says to me. "Enemy forces have dropped a Momshell." "Fall back, solider. Over and out.
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Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.
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I wish I could say that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had done himself less than justice. Unfortunately, I can only say that I believe he has done himself justice. Some Chancellors are macro-economic. Other Chancellors are fiscal. This one is just plain cheap.
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Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
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Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
