Simone Weil (Simone Adolphine Weil) Quotes
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.Simone Weil
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
Candice Olson -
Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.
Carly Patterson -
I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
Zoe Kazan -
When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.
Danica Patrick -
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
Ian Mckellen -
You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
Walter Cronkite
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I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'
Eddie Guerrero -
Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
Harold Brodkey -
One's thoughts turn towards Hope.
Leonardo da Vinci -
Find me in the shadows, and pull the shades down until tomorrow.
Selena Gomez -
On a film set, everything's done for you. You get to a stage where you can't even remember the last time you made yourself a sandwich. The crazy thing is that, as actors, we're trying to portray the human condition, but we're often not living in reality.
Elizabeth Debicki -
I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.
Mariel Hemingway
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So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.
David E. Kelley -
My kids have a great dad. I don't really want them to have a stepfather, and I don't think they do, either.
Jane Kaczmarek -
A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.
Penn Jillette -
I love Adele, I want her to be my best friend. She could come to the U.S., live with me and sing to me every morning.
Amber Riley -
Love is my religion - I could die for it.
John Keats -
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.
Twinkle Khanna
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These universal means of expression were discovered in modern painting by a logical and gradual progress toward ever more abstract form and color. Once the solution was discovered, there followed the exact representation of relations alone, that is to say, of the essential and fundamental element in any plastic emotion of the beautiful.
Piet Mondrian -
It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me.' Being popular is poison.
Zach Galifianakis -
I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.
Inbee Park -
Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.
Randall Kennedy -
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Simone Weil