Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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Should someone ask me whether I would indicate the West such as it is today as a model to my country, frankly I would have to answer negatively. No, I could not recommend your society in its present state as an ideal for the transformation of ours.
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I didn't do a Bondy. We didn't produce anything new, just things that were in the Australian tradition - but better and stronger. Beyond the ideas I can't take any credit for the growth of the business. The kids were responsible. I was too busy with cattle and gold.
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The only argument this president needs to persuade Americans is that sacking Saddam is necessary for the security of America and the West, of civilization as we know it. All those other goals are nice, worthy even, but irrelevant to the job immediately at hand.
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Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
