Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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I'm a political conservative.
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There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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I love to laugh, it's my main thing. I love to abuse the English language.
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If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.
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But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.
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Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.
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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
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I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.
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Yoko Ono was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture.
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It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
