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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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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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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In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.
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What feeds me destroys me.
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People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.
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I have a, you know, a John Ritter-shaped hole in my heart. Nobody can replace that.
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It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it.
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Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.
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William Boss Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him.
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I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.
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Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
