Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

If we must absolutely mention this state of affairs, I suggest that we call ourselves 'absent', that is more proper.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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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.

  

  Rand Paul
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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?

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Love
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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.

  

  Jack Cade
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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.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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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.

  

  Earle Brown
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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.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
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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.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • Mistake
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Good
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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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • 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.

  

  Barbara Jordan
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• 'War does not call for judgment,' I said, 'merely survival.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • War
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• I always thought there was very little wit wanted to make a fortune in the City.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • City

• 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.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Writing
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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.

  

  Joanna Lumley

• We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.

  

  Ken Liu
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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.

  

  DJ Khaled
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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.

  

  Byron Dorgan
  • Country
  • American
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• The law always limits every power it gives.

  

  David Hume
  • Power
  • Law

• I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.

  

  Kevin Bacon

• I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.

  

  Ann B. Davis
  • Great
  • Children
  • Sister

• Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God. Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Blessed

• All of Creation’s a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Men
  • Reason

• You [the Gallaudet students have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

  

  Tom Harkin
  • Together
  • Community
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• If we must absolutely mention this state of affairs, I suggest that we call ourselves 'absent', that is more proper.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre