Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
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Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.
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Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.
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That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
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Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he'll kill himself with nothing but his waste.
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
