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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You have to be willing to be a live performer, if you want to make money as an independent.
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Anybody who's putting out records is probably not making money at it.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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One can buy anything with money except morality.
