Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

You have stolen my face from me: you know it and I no longer do.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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• The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Movie

• It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Dream
  • Designer
  • Lifelong

• I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Finance

• To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Together
  • Rich

• What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • See
  • Influence
  • Development

• Companies generally work better when they are smaller. It's always worth spending time to think about the least amount of projects/work you can feasibly do, and then having as small a team as possible to do it.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Small

• For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Hope
  • Person
  • Politics

• Scrutiny has never scared me because I have had detractors all my life.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Life
  • Me
  • My Life

• I know people who are twice as creative as I am, twice as smart, but they didn't do anything because they feared going into a room and opening their mouths. My parents told me to truly accomplish things in my life, there would be times I would have to stand alone. It may be scary, but that's what it requires.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Person
  • Clothes
  • Reflected

• People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Man
  • Refer

• You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • School
  • Technology

• Tantra says there is nobody above you whom you have to follow, through whom you have to get your pattern.

  

  Rajneesh

• Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Friend
  • Integrity

• A shadow may be infinitely dark, and also of infinite degrees of absence of darkness. The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • May
  • Light
  • Dark

• Reorganisation, irrespectively of God or king, by the worship of Humanity, systematically adopted. Man’s only right is to do his duty. The Intellect should always be the servant of the Heart, and should never be its slave.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • God
  • Heart
  • Humanity

• I got a tattoo saying, 'Freedom From Fear' because of 'Black Water Transit.'

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Black
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• People don't get married to get divorced. Maybe people weren't meant to be together forever.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • People
  • Together
  • Forever

• So many of my characters have really crazy physicalities, so it's really fun to be able to say, like, 'I'm an elf who's the size of a dollar bill!'

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.

  

  Jim Varney
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Self
  • Meaning
  • Apocalypse

• Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve the poor than they have of your service.

  

  Angela Merici
  • Reality
  • Need
  • Serve

• You have stolen my face from me: you know it and I no longer do.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre