Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I get homesick.
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Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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I like to think of myself as classy.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was always on the lookout for other talent and taking me to see plays. I saw Frank Langella in 'Dracula'... Great, great performances. I was a theater rat, hanging out backstage.
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I had an uncle who took me to the ring in Medellin when I was 15 years old. In school, we had someone who taught us how to bullfight.
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I love 'House of Cards.' I would watch Kevin Spacey read the phone book.
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I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.
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I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.
