Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
Quotes to Explore
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Women love a self-confident bald man.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
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I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.
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I grew up with the great Sir Laurence Olivier, and I think it's fair to say that a lot of actors of my age were influenced by his very individual vocal delivery. He was a showman who would always play to the gallery.
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We hunger for connection to a larger community.
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If I was at school and one of my friends said something funny, I'd write it down in a notebook and take it to the writers meetings. I never told my friends about it. I just thought I could incorporate stuff that was true to life.
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According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
