Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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• I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • World
  • Mean
  • Style

• Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Good
  • Famous
  • Restaurants

• My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Drawing
  • Library
  • Walls

• I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Order

• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Like
  • Loved
  • Because

• The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Environment
  • Something

• While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Credit

• Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Different
  • Technology
  • Environment

• There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Night
  • Dinner
  • Fresh

• I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Poet

• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Time
  • History
  • Government

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • You
  • Answer
  • Call

• The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Hearts
  • Big
  • July

• Ann Curry: You know the American people are suffering watching -Mrs. Bush: Believe me, no one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this, and certainly the commander in chief, who has asked our military to go into harm's way.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize as survival of the fittest, richest and whitest - is too callous for most Americans.

  

  John Yarmuth
  • Survival

• You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Speak
  • Deals
  • Infinite

• If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • People
  • Art
  • Single

• I love Baltimore and the people who call it home, and I sincerely believe that Maryland's biggest city must serve as the economic and cultural heart of our state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Heart

• If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Single
  • Literature