Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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Being evil is easy.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
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When you're in a rehearsal room, it's like getting into a car and going on a long journey with everyone's stuff in the back. If you keep stopping the car and going, 'Are you sure we want to go?' and think, 'This is really daunting,' you will get frightened, so you just have to keep ploughing through it.
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I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you.
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I love all people. I hate no one. And, you know, when you take a subject and you reduce it to something like a four-second sound bite, and a check mark on a ballot, I think that that's inappropriate and insensitive.
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Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.
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Pale manchild were there last agonies? Were you in terror, did you know? Could you feel the claw that claimed you? And who is this fool kneeling over your bones, choked with bitterness? And what could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream.
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I wish theater criticism in this country could be more of a companion piece to the experience than a warning about where not to spend your money.
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No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.
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A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.
