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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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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I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.
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Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.
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We hear people talk about putting a price on carbon, but they won't talk about how much that price of carbon is.
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Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the Republicans to discredit the very concept of activist celebrities. Poor old Democrats, in thrall to her fundraising: people who need Barbra are the unluckiest people in the world.
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Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established.
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Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.
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You play with the audience, and they play back with you. They get into it, and then everybody gets into it. I don't want to be like a monkey on stage and just go through the motions because then it wouldn't be fun anymore. I just pay attention to the audience and appreciate the fact that somebody wants to see us. That gets me psyched.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
