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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Simone de Beauvoir

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Being Different Make Passive Object

There's no debate about the greenhouse effect, just like there's no debate about gravity. If someone throws a piano off the roof, I don't care what Sarah Palin tells you, get out of the way because it's coming down on your head.

Care Someone You Debate Down Way

I can never kind of fathom a character's journey beyond the moment when you go to black, any more than when people ask me what Jason Patric did with the tape recorder at the end of 'Narc,' you know what I mean? Even in 'Blood, Guts,' like, what happens down the road with these characters?

Character Journey Moment People Road

This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.

Love Fear Power Time Hate Laughter

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

Life Great Think You Person Try

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Art Space Spirit Breathing Room

Like most successful businesses, you and your employees have a vast knowledge base and expertise in your vertical, as well as a lot of great video and text content to prove it. So, why not monetize your expertise and create digital products and membership courses?

Knowledge Great Employees You Create

I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been reading or thinking about that day or that week.

Day Writing Reading Thinking You

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Live Age Interesting Enough You Old

I want to be a representative of what I hope will be a future bigger and broader Republican party.

Anthony Scaramucci

Future Hope Party Want Will Bigger

If your friend's feeling bad, it's hard to know what to do. Do you back away or try to help them? It's a really hard situation that I've been in. You want to support your friend. You want to be there. My advice is, don't get too involved with it, just be by their side. If they need your help, they'll ask for it.

Friend Support Advice Help You Bad

The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

Story Immigration American America

If you look at a map, you see that Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. It's 17 hours of straight flying from London. It's very far away, and sometimes you feel as if you're on another planet. But I like that. Also, that's ideal for writing.

Writing Flying Feel You Hawaii Look

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