Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.
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By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
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The polished executive is ultimately the happy executive who can walk gracefully through life.
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People are not afraid to be activists, to be vocal. And I think back to my years in college, and that wasn't the case.
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Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.
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I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.
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I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had to relearn everything. I started writing songs. Some were dance and trance songs (I listen to them a lot while I'm writing), and some were love songs, because that after all is what music is about - dancing and trancing and love and love's setbacks.
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The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
