Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
If we must absolutely mention this state of affairs, I suggest that we call ourselves 'absent', that is more proper.
Quotes to Explore
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I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.
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I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having fun, doing something I love and getting paid for it. How cool is that?
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It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.
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My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
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The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project.
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What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line.
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I have friends who I consider my peers, who have done amazing work, particularly in the film and television space, who came up as independent artists and who have been - to be brutally honest - much more prolific than I was able to be.
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The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer's successful strategy will work for you, too. Publishers' marketers - and even freelance publicists who cost mega bucks - tend to do the same basic things for all books.
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It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
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Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.
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This country can ill afford to continue to function using less than half of its human resources, less than half its kinetic energy, less than half its brain power.
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'War does not call for judgment,' I said, 'merely survival.'
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I always thought there was very little wit wanted to make a fortune in the City.
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I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.
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I've had my run-ins with department stores, like Harrods, which stopped selling fur coats, but I found some there with fur trim, which is just as disgusting. Foie gras production is appalling - there's no excuse for selling it.
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We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.
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When my record comes on, you know that's a DJ Khaled record. That's my formula, and the people love it.
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Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.
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Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
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It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
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When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.
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My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence of my own childhood consciousness was in the context of 1970s and 1980s apartheid South Africa and the movement there.
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If we must absolutely mention this state of affairs, I suggest that we call ourselves 'absent', that is more proper.
