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Simone Weil Quotes

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Greatness Civilization True

I need the lightness of children's lit.

Children Need Lit Lightness

I think it is a burden... that we constantly realise that there isn't that much rhyme or reason to why something happens. If we think about that too much, it can make all of our decisions very stressful.

Think Decisions Too Much Burden Why

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.

Work Wife Me Bridge Bicycle Used

I've always lived by the principle of find what you really enjoy doing and make it your career.

Doing Enjoy You Career Find Always

I'm a Cheesehead.

Science Creative Think You I Think

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

Question Ambitious Everybody He

After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do.

Hate Parents Gangster Someone Hood

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.

Time Feel You Excited Aware Stuff

In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

Women New York You Body Party New

We weren't rich by any means, but we had each other, so we were rich in family. When you don't have a lot, it just fuels that creativity. So it manifested in us doing characters of people in the neighborhood or doing impersonations of Mom and Dad. The comedy bug, it takes over.

Family Creativity People Mom Rich

My own introduction to music came quite early. My father didn't have much of an education, but he was keen for me to get some qualifications, and I ended up winning a choral scholarship to a cathedral school.

Education Father Music School Me

I used to go to the stables and fool with the mules. My mother lived in constant fear that I might be brought home with a hoof print on my stomach.

Rudolph Valentino

Fear Mother Home Fool Go Stomach

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