Simone Weil Quotes

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Simone Weil

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 3, 1909 - August 24, 1943

Topics

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I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

Jimmy Wales

KnowledgePeopleWorldAlwaysBig

When I do a project, I like the idea that someone is going to experience the book, someone is going to experience the film, someone else is going to experience a framed photo on a wall, but they are all going to get to the same root thing as long as all of those mediums are exploring it from the same place.

Andrew Zuckerman

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There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

Michael Fassbender

CoolInterestingYouPointBreeze

American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.

John Shadegg

FreeAmericanInvestmentFree Trade

Every fight is dangerous, no matter who you're fighting, no matter what the story behind it is.

Rose Namajunas

FightStoryFightingYouDangerous

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

Russell Simmons

BusinessCultureBeginningCreative

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

Mason Cooley

SuccessSatisfiedOrdinaryFailures

I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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I know that New York City remains the highest density urban area in the country and by far dedicates more of its own funds to fighting terrorism than any other municipality.

Jose Serrano

New YorkCityFightingCountryKnow

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

FunnyHumorManHimWhoKnew

Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words at all. It's much easier to write new stuff the next day than to go through painful deletions of a day's worth of crap you already wrote.

Douglas Brunt

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I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

Christopher Hitchens

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