Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

'Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.'

Jean-Paul Sartre

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• I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Single
  • Heaven

• Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Important
  • Know

• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Want
  • Bridge

• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I so never went through a bad-girl period.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Bad
  • Girl
  • Never

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Hate
  • Actor

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Me
  • Imagination
  • Matter

• I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Part
  • Turn

• There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Night
  • Sports

• Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Black
  • Change
  • Moving

• The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Body
  • Fingers
  • Ears

• What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Care
  • Achievement
  • Act

• I trust my makeup artist to apply dark lipstick, but I get nervous about reapplying it, so I'll just use gloss instead. The last time I tried to reapply dark lipstick, I dropped it on my dress and it left a spot.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Dark

• Indian cinema is entertaining, and what I love most about it is the songs and dances in the films.

  

  Pierce Brosnan

• I have a theory that I really want my kids to know - the only coloration that they make between dad being in films and reality is just a lot of people doing a lot of hard work.

  

  Eric Bana
  • People
  • Work
  • Kids

• Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge…. But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a false picture of reality as distorting as the trick mirrors in a Coney Island funhouse.

  

  Howard E. Koch
  • Reality
  • Opportunity
  • Mirrors

• 'Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.'

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Reality