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Simone Weil Quotes

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Power Humility Attention Intellectual

I often wonder if my being a fairly small Asian woman with a high-pitched quietish voice plays a role in how often men feel entitled to come up to me and tell me, 'You have this doll act,' or whatever.

Men Woman Me Small Voice You

People form strong attachments to their properties.

People Strong Form Properties

I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too.

Good Character Walk Writing Song

I was a bit of a late developer, and everyone was saying, 'Whatever you do, don't shave,' and I hadn't really started shaving. I remember rubbing the soot from a kettle on to my bumfluff to make it look more like I had a beard.

Saying Beard Remember You Look Late

I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open to reality.

Luca Guadagnino

Discipline Reality You Copy Open

We're supposed to be uncomfortable when we read something. That's how we learn.

Learn Uncomfortable Something Read

Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.

Home Relationship Woman Personal Up

The minute you see that everything is going one way, you get the hell out.

Jonathan Anderson

Hell You Way Everything See Out

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

Dino De Laurentiis

Learn You Nobody Teach Actor Right

Any American who has spent time in Iraq or Afghanistan will tell you: the closer you get, the less certain you are of anything. If you are in Iraq, if you are in Afghanistan, everything is ambiguous. Everything is murky and gray and uncertain and possibly lethal.

Time American You Will Gray Tell

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

Power Fall Party Will Up Like

It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

Best Day Book Wish You Holiday

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