Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

  

  Nancy Friday
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• The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

  

  Jackie Robinson
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• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
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• I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

  

  Larry Speakes
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• I literally don't think about Oscar.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
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• Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
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• I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • World
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• If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Never
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• I never sing in the shower either.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Never
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• Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.

  

  Warren Christopher
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• Having to re-recruit, rehire, and retrain, and wait for a new employee to get up to speed is devastating in terms of cost.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

  

  Kate Atkinson
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• The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Earth

• I do have my insecurities, but I feel good in my skin, and my heart is full of love.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Good
  • Heart

• Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. 'They are tall,' said he, 'and comely, but bear no fruit.'

  

  Plutarch

• One of the great reasons, I am sure, why David O. McKay has lived to such a good, ripe, and vigorous old age has been the fact that as a young man he developed habits of retiring to bed early, arising early, generally before sun up, when his mind was clear and his body vigorous, to do the day's work.

  

  Ernest L. Wilkinson
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• I like the idea of going to university and studying. I didn't do it because it was a back-up plan. In some ways, it kind of goes hand in hand with acting. There's a lot of analysis and enriching your mind, as well as problem solving. And it can only help being around people as an actor.

  

  Yasmin Paige
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• I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Want
  • Freedom