Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.
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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.
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There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.
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Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu, almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do, but you could put your finger right through it.
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The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
