Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.
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Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box.
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I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.
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Imagine feeling like every kiss goodbye to your loved ones each day might be your last kiss. Police officers and their families feel this way every single day.
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It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.
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It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.
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I never wanted fame.
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I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush.
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One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
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This may sound strange, but at a very early age, at around 3, I was aware that I was smarter than the other kids.
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My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary.
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For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all.
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It's really interesting because 50 years ago, if you didn't wear a hat everyone looked at you. It just proves that everything is fashion.
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Then he saw that she was blind, her face slightly upcast to her companion's in the manner of those whose expressions never fully attain their target - the eyes of another. (II)
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…the prisoner’s dreams is the guard’s spirituality
