Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

  

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• Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

  

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• The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.

  

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• I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

  

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• Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

  

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• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

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• My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

  

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• I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.

  

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• Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.

  

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• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

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• I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.

  

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• In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

  

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• I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

  

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• I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.

  

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• I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.

  

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• The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.

  

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• And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

  

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• My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

  

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• Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

  

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• This bill speeds up our ability to get to market. It will have a big effect. Cable prices usually go down 20 percent or more in markets allowed a choice of providers.

  

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• The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Writing
  • Women
  • May