Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.
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When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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I have no particular formula for staying private.
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The biotechnology wave is similar to the information technology wave of the 1980s and 1990s.
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They have, in essence, treated these articles as empty vessels to be filled with some witches' brew of charges.
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My entire adult life has been in military. That's a big part of my life and a big part of why I am the person with the experience to be the United States senator.
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One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.
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The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'
