Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences.
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I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
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I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
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The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.
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Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.
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Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?
