Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
Becki Newton -
I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
Harold Prince -
Funny is an attitude.
Flip Wilson -
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
Zora Neale Hurston -
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
Laura Schlessinger
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
Olivier Theyskens -
Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
Karen Salmansohn -
The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
Randy Houser -
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
Barbara Walters -
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
Orhan Pamuk
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
Kate Thompson -
The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
Pat Metheny -
There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
Daniel Barenboim -
And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
Pamela Anderson -
Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
W. C. Fields -
Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
Malcolm Wallop
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
Hannibal Buress -
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
Rachel Boston -
The creation of 'Into The Gloss' took less than a month. Glossier took twelve months and about a million dollars to hire the team, work with the chemists, order the inventory, get an office - you know, the whole thing.
Emily Weiss -
We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population is illiterate, can change the political and social life of the country..it is up to political organization..and not to romantic literature.. to change the present situation.
Zakaria Tamer -
Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau