Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Great
  • Play
  • First

• There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

  

  O. Henry
  • American
  • Day
  • Thanksgiving

• Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Writing
  • Person
  • Possible

• I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Experience
  • Picture
  • Advertising

• Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Enjoy
  • Appreciate

• Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • New
  • Week
  • Now

• Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Home
  • Together
  • Boy

• It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Friends
  • True
  • Past

• We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Life
  • Running
  • Old

• I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

  

  Kate Williams
  • History
  • Think
  • Want

• Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

  

  Jack Hannah
  • People
  • Water
  • Animals

• Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Best
  • Choices
  • Look

• Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Live
  • Wanted
  • New York

• I could probably recite just about every song that was on country radio between 1990 and 2000.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Song
  • Radio

• I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.'

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Years

• When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Food
  • Dress
  • Throw

• Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Education
  • Food

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  Irving Babbitt

• It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.

  

  James Schuyler
  • Work
  • Writing

• We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But this means being: Loving as he loves, helping as he helps, giving as he gives, serving as he serves, rescuing as he rescues, being with him all 24 hours of the day, touching him in his distressing disguise.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Mean

• You have to be committed or you fall behind, lose out.

  

  Crystal Gayle
  • Fall

• This race is not for the swift, but for the smart, for the one who knows himself as the winner

  

  Burning Spear
  • Smart
  • Knows
  • Race

• It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau