Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.
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I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
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The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
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When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'
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The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
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Now that I'm in 'Nashville,' the thing that I'm loving the most is co-writing. You walk into the room and you shake hands with someone you've never met before and you walk out four hours later and you've got this thing... sharing ideas and everything, it's almost magical, like a miracle.
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WWE is such a universal form of entertainment. I believe that you can watch WWE in mute and still know what is going on.
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Women politicians tend to lead by being accountable for results. We focus on goals and outcomes. You can't get by on just swagger.
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I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think.
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Sometimes, when the wind hits hard and icicles form on the sea cliffs, we can all come together - and at those times, we are at our best.
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Lou Reed's spirit and the way he did things was so important. Him and his music mean so much to me as the years go by.
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I really like 'Batman.' Not the TV show, but the dark 'Batman.'
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I feel at home when I go to London.
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As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.
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A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions.
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Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.
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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
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If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
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My pitching philosophy is simple. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.
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Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.
