Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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I used to be a record collector. Mark Ronson, Questlove and I used to be part of, like, a record-trading crew.
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That's why you put out records: hoping that people will connect with them. I mean, I play music for myself, for sure, and I would still play music even if people didn't like it. But it means a lot when it connects to people and they enjoy it. But it's funny: you get criticism as much as you get praise. It kind of evens out after awhile.
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One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'
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Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see an 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair the same way they see a T80 tank; they're both just a series of zeros and ones.
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The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.
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She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her
