Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
Quotes to Explore
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.
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Pollution, defilement, squalor are words that never would have been created had man lived conformably to Nature. Birds, insects, bears die as cleanly and are disposed of as beautifully as flies. The woods are full of dead and dying trees, yet needed for their beauty to complete the beauty of the living.... How beautiful is all Death!
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
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Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
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The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
