Simone Weil (Simone Adolphine Weil) Quotes
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.Simone Weil
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
Walter Salles -
The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
Lamar S. Smith -
When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
B. B. King -
I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
Salman Rushdie -
I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
Mahesh Babu -
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
Maajid Nawaz -
I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.
Ziggy Marley -
We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I'm the happiest when I'm in the studio, not on a beauty parade.
FKA twigs -
I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.
Deepika Padukone -
A naked woman in heels is a beautiful thing. A naked man in shoes looks like a fool.
Christian Louboutin
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I love sports and I love sports movies.
James Van Der Beek -
All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.
Bobby Fischer -
Never once does 'Snow White' herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.
Lily Collins -
I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.
Doris Lessing -
My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything.
Geena Davis -
There is no secret here. I will give my all, as I always have. This way I prove to the people who hired me, and those who support me, how much it means.
Diego Maradona
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Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.
Blake Mycoskie -
I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
Jack Gleeson -
A role I grew up with and always loved was James Bond. I'd even say, in some ways, that he served as a creative role model for me as a kid in terms of roles I would want to play. I watched all of the movies growing up with my dad, so to be Bond himself would, without a doubt, be my dream role.
Elliot Knight -
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
William Butler Yeats -
After looking at Salomaybe, I don't know who the hell the real me is. I think it's closest now to the real me because for one thing, I'm used to this.
Al Pacino -
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil