Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I would like to see America some day.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
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In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.
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I had a guitar sitting around, and it just happened to have four strings on it, and I would sit around watching TV and playing it. I ended up writing bunches of songs around four strings.
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So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
