Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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At the U.N., I routinely encounter countries that do not want to impose sanctions or even to enforce those already on the books. The hard-line sanctions skeptics have their own self-interested reasons for opposing sanctions, but they ground their opposition in claims that America uses sanctions to inflict punishment for punishment's sake.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
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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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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
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It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
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I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.
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I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'.
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It's a matter of priorities. Do you want to win, or would you like to sleep? Do you want to win, or would you like to take a day off?
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Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.
