Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.

  

  Maisie Williams
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• You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.

  

  Malcolm X
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• To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

  

  Samantha Morton
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• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
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• It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.

  

  M.I.A.
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• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
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• I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.

  

  Samuel Barnett
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• Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

  

  Ralph Ransom
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• I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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• I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.

  

  Van Morrison
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• If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.

  

  Sam Palladio
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• I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

  

  Larry David
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• Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.

  

  Victor Garber
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• I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.

  

  Sam Smith
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• Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.

  

  Ed Asner
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• Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.

  

  Phil Robertson
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• My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
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• Most folks, when they see movies or hear records, need something that they find pulls them in, draws them in, and appeals to them beyond just the notes. For a record to be memorable and great, it has to have something of this quality. Exactly what that is, I don't know, but I think it has something to do with an atmosphere, an environment that is appealing and attractive. And the people that inhabit this environment have... almost a message for the rest of the world.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
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• What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

  

  Harold Bloom
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• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  

  K. D. Lang
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• One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Thinking
  • Slave
  • Masters