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We're all somewhat courageous, and we're all considerably cowardly. We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
Sidney Poitier
Courageous
Cowardly
Life
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Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment
Sidney Poitier
Accept
Environment
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As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.
Sidney Poitier
Father
Legacy
Measure
Man
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Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.
Sidney Poitier
Acting
Game
Pretend
Real
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To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
Sidney Poitier
Wake up
Better
Person
Bed
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If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.
Sidney Poitier
Image
Elements
Reality
Let go
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But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.
Sidney Poitier
Always
Ability
No
Own shots
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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
Sidney Poitier
Every
Fashion
Form
Rebellion
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Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.
Sidney Poitier
Living
Genuine
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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
Sidney Poitier
Apologize
Afraid
Child
Man
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Sidney Poitier
Set
Star
High
Motion
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I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
Sidney Poitier
Great
Family
Know
Wonderful
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As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.
Sidney Poitier
Man
Values
Lives
Parents
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I'll always be chasing you... Glory.
Sidney Poitier
Chasing
You
Glory
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I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.
Sidney Poitier
Know
Responsible
Happens
Make
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I wouldn’t change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
Sidney Poitier
Change
Single
Alters
Moment
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The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice.
Simon Pegg
Worst
Best
Internet
Voice
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Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy...
Simon Pegg
Being
Geek
Honest
Enjoy
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Being a geek is extremely liberating
Simon Pegg
Being
Geek
Extremely
Liberating
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I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.
Simon Pegg
Thought
Desires
Art
Emotional
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simone de Beauvoir
One
Born
Becomes
Woman
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
Simone de Beauvoir
One's
Life
Value
Others
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A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
Simone de Beauvoir
Man
Woman
Enjoy
Himself
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
Simone de Beauvoir
Lose
Confidence
Body
Oneself
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Simone de Beauvoir
Loved
Admired
Necessary
Somebody
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Simone de Beauvoir
Catch
Husband
Art
Job
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
Simone de Beauvoir
Man
Human being
Woman
Male
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project
Simone de Beauvoir
Body
Situation
World
Project
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
Simone de Beauvoir
Wish
Human life
Transparent
Freedom
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
Simone de Beauvoir
Capabilities
Clearly
Manifested
Realized
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Simone de Beauvoir
Change
Life
Future
Act now
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I could see no reason for being sad. It's just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
Simone de Beauvoir
Reason
Sad
Unhappy
Feel
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Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other; but for the same reason each is against the others.
Simone de Beauvoir
Women's
Understanding
Identify
Reason
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
Simone de Beauvoir
Today
Hard time
Living
Death
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me
Simone de Beauvoir
Some things
Loved
Great
Given
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
Simone de Beauvoir
Abstain
Politics
Attitude
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
Simone de Beauvoir
People
Think
Empty
Fill
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
Simone de Beauvoir
Self-consciousness
Knowledge
Story
Oneself
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To paint, to write, to engage in politics—these are not merely ‘sublimations’; here we have aims that are willed for their own sakes. To deny it is to falsify all human history.
Simone de Beauvoir
Paint
Write
Falsify
History
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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
Simone de Beauvoir
Man
Attempt
Accept
Task
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it
Simone de Beauvoir
Knowledge
Happiness
Courage
Fight
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I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there's the true, preestablished balance.
Simone de Beauvoir
Story
Time
True
Balance
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
Simone de Beauvoir
Ethics
Life
Game
Winning
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it
Simone de Beauvoir
War
Revolution
Sacrifice
Generation
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
Simone de Beauvoir
World
Nothing
Exile
Hope
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
Simone de Beauvoir
Life
Occupied
Living
Dying
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But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.
Simone de Beauvoir
Women
Congress
Feminists
Demonstration
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.
Simone de Beauvoir
Youth
Vigor
Fire
Love
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility
Simone de Beauvoir
Oppression
Defend
Itself
Utility
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…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation
Simone de Beauvoir
Day
Training
Think
Truth
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