Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice.
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The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
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In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.
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They that govern the most make the least noise.
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The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
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I've done hundreds of interviews on guns. I'm against people who use guns. I don't like guns, but I've never yelled at anyone.
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Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
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Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.
