Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
Quotes to Explore
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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It's all about confidence and how you feel about yourself. There's no such thing as a perfect woman. I like imperfections - that's what makes you unique.
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It isn't hard to be in a relationship because I've always loved to be in a relationship, and I love to be in love.
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Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a fantasy world where they just do spinning hook kicks and knock out guys who are six foot four, and that doesn't work either.
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I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.
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...and there I was sending all the wrong signals to the right people in the wrong ways. Again, again, again.
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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
