Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Impossible
  • Task

• I just want to do my job.

  

  Ma Long
  • Job
  • Want
  • Just

• Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Days
  • Breaking

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Done
  • America

• I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Me
  • Waiting

• There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Education
  • Will
  • Watch

• I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Present

• I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Humor

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Like
  • Never
  • Early

• I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Myself
  • Performance
  • Push

• Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Good
  • Me
  • Space

• I'm understated in my approach.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Approach
  • Understated

• The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.

  

  Washed Out
  • Together
  • Way
  • Kind

• I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Hope
  • Way
  • Me

• I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

  

  Randy Newman
  • True
  • Earth
  • Genius

• You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Up
  • Children
  • Think

• Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

  

  Brandon Thomas
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Band

• I'm fascinated by the business of belief, obviously, because it's so ever present with humanity anyway. And, you know, when you have science, which constantly talks of proofs, you have religion, which constantly talks of beliefs and faith and so on.

  

  John Hurt
  • Business
  • Science
  • Faith

• All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Life