Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.Simone de Beauvoir
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
Carine Roitfeld -
For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.
Walt Mossberg -
Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.
Caitlin Doughty -
When you fall in love, you become weak.
Zola Jesus -
I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
Banks
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow -
One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair -
I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
Kate Smith -
I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.
Sally Mann -
I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
Parker Posey -
Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
Carine Roitfeld
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Oh my God, I'm a walking advertisement for discounted shopping.
Iris Apfel -
I just have an inability to lie.
Paloma Faith -
If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
Camille Claudel -
Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
Dan Quisenberry -
A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
Earl Weaver
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I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.
Kate del Castillo -
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year
Ray Bradbury -
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
Oscar Nunez -
Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.
Hans Blix -
It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.
Simone de Beauvoir