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.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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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.
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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.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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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.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.
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I was having a conversation with my father and he was talking about this thing - strangeness and charm. It's actually the name of the two smallest particles that there are when you split the atom, so I wrote a song around it. I even managed to fit the word 'hydrogen' in there. Isn't that a nice thing for scientists to call them though?
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God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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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.
