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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Simone de Beauvoir

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986

Topics

Woman Words Broken Magic Sex Kind

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

Life God Woman Death War Child

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

Teacher Struggle Me Student Lucky

I don't very much distinguish when I'm working. I do what I like to do: the time changes and my activity changes.

Time Changes Time Changes Working

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.

Good Business Music People Place

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Bradley Whitford

Motivational Life Love Future Hope

We need to gather intelligence, but we need to do so legally.

Intelligence Need Gather Legally

Acting requires emotional flexibility and demands, and directing is more cerebral and managerial and a tactical kind of thing.

Acting Kind More Flexibility Demands

We have a country that wants to believe it is the best in everything, but until all of us embrace the idea that health care should be a right, not a privilege, our system cannot be glibly described as, quote, 'the best in the world.'

Health Best World Believe Care

Pressure is always a part of a racing driver's life, but my father helped me a lot on my way to becoming a F1 driver.

Life Father Me Pressure Racing Way

I'm kind of well-known in Holland, which is nice. But in Holland, we're down to earth; there are no paparazzi in my garden and no autograph hunters at the door. We have 'Strictly Come Dancing,' but I've not been asked.

Door Garden Down Earth Nice Kind

I don't want to be something that just comes and goes.

Want Something Just Goes

I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

Kristin Scott Thomas

Family Love Home Back Now Move

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