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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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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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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Religious people know deep down that that is the most vulnerable area of their lives, and when others question it, they are liable to hit out and feel insulted. You know it is absolutely without proof, yet people still commit themselves totally to this belief. They cannot refute it because it is so central to their lives.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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'But,' I Dmitri Karamazov asked, 'how will man be after that? Without God and the future life? It means everything is permitted now, one can do anything?' 'Didn't you know?' he said. And he laughed. 'Everything is permitted to the intelligent man,' he said.
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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
