Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
Carly Fiorina
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
Jack Kevorkian
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
Tariq Ramadan
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
Naomie Harris
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I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
Parker Posey
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
Wendy Kopp
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
Ralph Gibson
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To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
Adam Mansbach
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
Gary Cole
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
Samantha Bee
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
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Then a overflowing desire comes to me, absurd, of a sort of satanism before Satan, in that one day ... an escape out of God can be found and the deepest of us stops, I don't know how, to be a part of being or not being.
Fernando Pessoa
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'The solution lies in secrecy,' said Medra. 'But so does the problem.'
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I am a writer today because I learned to love reading as a child - and mostly on account of the Oz books.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
Marianne Williamson
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I can smell blood, Elena,” Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. “Are you trying to flirt?
Nalini Singh
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To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
