Simone Weil (Simone Adolphine Weil) Quotes
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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My vision and my creative ability is just so broad.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.
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And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.
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The mind was a marvellous instrument, thought Shimrod; when left to wander untended, it often arrived at curious destinations.
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I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.
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My definition of a producer is 'the man with the dream.'
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My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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I'm proposing … that we reach into our bodies and we grab the genotype, and we reach into the medical system and we grab our records, and we use it to build something together.
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I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
