Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

  

  J. C. Watts
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• 'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.

  

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• From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

  

  Namie Amuro
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• I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

  

  Quavo Migos
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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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• The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.

  

  Wayne McGregor
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• I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

  

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• Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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• When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

  

  Uta Hagen
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• Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.

  

  Barbara Ann Scott
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• I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.

  

  Rachel Sklar
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• I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

  

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• My mom, she was, at a young age, caught up in the worldly ways. At that time, it was very intriguing to be out partying and having fun. As a young mother, she was caught in that.

  

  Amar'e Stoudemire
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• To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
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• Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.

  

  Joseph Stalin
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• If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free.

  

  Sophocles
  • Free
  • Body
  • My Mind

• Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
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• Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Free