Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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The first thing I always look at on a girl is her eyes.
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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,-a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
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I love to go hiking. I hike every day for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours in the hills around LA. I go to the gym every day, too.
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Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern.
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The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.
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All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.
