Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.
Quotes to Explore
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.
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For us Indians, I don't think English can ever exude that magic of emotions which our mother tongue can.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
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Love is like nothing else on this earth, but only when it is shared with someone wonderful like you.
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The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
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Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.
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There are things I can accomplish in the studio via manipulation on the computer or some kind of effect that are nearly impossible to do live. On the flip side, there are some things that happen live that can't be pulled off in the studio.
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I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.
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Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
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That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like the idea of working with synthesizers but now I think they're fun, there are no restrictions. Not that I understand how they work.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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I watched the coral reefs that I studied as a student vanish in the blink of an eye, and for decades I wrote and spoke of ocean obituaries. But big scary problems without solutions lead to apathy, not action.
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The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.
