Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
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You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
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It's clear there is an energy positive in producing ethanol.
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I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.
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Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
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To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
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One of the key trends in all the papers today is how tablets are eroding use of laptops. That's a good trend for the magazine industry e-subscription sales.
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Ninety-five percent of thought, emotion, and learning occur in the unconscious mind - that is, without our awareness.
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Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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If you need counsel, start with the One who is both Counselor and King - the One who is the source of both wisdom and power.
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She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.
