Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
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One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
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There's a thin line between catering to the masses and making a fool of yourself; I try to walk that line.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.
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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.
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I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.
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For Tammy Duckworth to blame the junior senator from Illinois for Islamic terror shows that she is a naive fool not fit for office in the Senate.
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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
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Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down.
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The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again.
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Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
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A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
