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 Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Important
  • Israel
  • Heritage

• 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

• The people that were most interesting were always questioning the status quo.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • People
  • Interesting

• Dear God, what is my purpose of life? What should I do to find it? Once I found it, will I become stronger? ....Oh no, my mind is blank. a strange sound kept ringing in my head. What sound is that...? Ah, I know. It's... The sound of emptiness.

  

  Chica Umino
  • Life
  • God
  • Mind

• The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Writing

• Life is relationships and what we're trying to do together. And please, that's what people have been singing about forever. That's what the blues is all about - the good, the bad, the fun, all of it - that lies there in between a man and a woman.

  

  Frankie Ballard
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

  

  Jose Bergamin
  • Water

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

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Life