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 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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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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The ideal of the rugged individual opening up the American West is still applied as an essential truth to ten million citizens living in the small area of New York City, as if ten million bulls should and could be squeezed into a china shop.
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Brand-wise, I love Doc Martens, Topshop, All Saints, and Lord & Taylor.
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Death cannot kill what never dies.
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Accept praise for its worth — politeness. Be brutally frank with yourself. It's safer.
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If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
