Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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My philosophy is to be me.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
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By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.
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I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
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Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and regional cooperation.
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I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.
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Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.
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Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.
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Where there's a will there's a detective story.
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An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.
