Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
For Genet, reflective states of mind are the rule. And although they are of an unstable nature in everyone, in him…reflection is always contrary to the reflected feeling.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
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I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
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When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.
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Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.
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Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
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It's the nature of journalism to need to be close to your subjects. And either you're able to be tough on them, which a lot of us are, or you get in bed with them, and some people do.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
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In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
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I'm really a big fan of HBO and Showtime shows, so I wouldn't mind being on an edgy show... where I could challenge myself to do gritty stuff - a homeless guy or just some guy with a lot going on who's got problems. It's more fun to do as an actor.
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I personally do not listen to a lot of music. It helps keep my mind free. I don't want to sound like someone else from the get-go. I want to express myself and the world in my head.
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As I said, it was inevitable, and I don’t let laws of nature upset me.
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I read some, and then visited with people involved in this curious, exciting and somewhat misunderstood sub-culture. I met with a fang maker, who offered to fit me for an exquisite pair.
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Any discuss about taxes ends up being, are you raising them or lowering them, as the opposed to the question I ask - are we raising them for high income individuals that can afford it, and lowering them for lower income people who really need help. Those old categories don't work, and they're preventing us from solving them problems.
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Was ever poet so trusted before?
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I think that a big shame of how women are approached in business is they're oftentimes looked to for perspective and not implementation.
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For Genet, reflective states of mind are the rule. And although they are of an unstable nature in everyone, in him…reflection is always contrary to the reflected feeling.
