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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My first semester of college, I'm going to sociology and English and psychology, and all I cared about was getting home and preparing for whatever audition I had.
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All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.
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I am not somebody who goes around saying men are superior or that male writers are superior. In fact, I really go out of my way to champion women's work that I think is not getting enough attention. None of that is ever enough. Because a villain is needed. It's like there's no way to make myself not male.
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Everyone wants to be financially secure, the problem is most people focus on "getting by" when they need to be focused on "getting rich."
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
