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.
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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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.
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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.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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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.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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.
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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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.
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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.
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Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
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Oh my God, I'm a walking advertisement for discounted shopping.
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I just have an inability to lie.
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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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.
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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.
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I'd really love to get back into commercials, actually. I love how quick and breezy they are. And honestly, they pay really well.
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If you real from the heart, you real from the heart. That ain't got nothing to do with no sex or gender.
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I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.
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I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.
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All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.
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No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.
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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.
