Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.
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As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
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My favorite lie was the online rumor that Bruce Willis was my uncle. That's hilarious.
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Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will.
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It’s a pushy bastard. It goes by Peregrine now.
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One can buy anything with money except morality.
