Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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When the prophets conceived Jehovah as the special vindicator of these voiceless classes it was another way of saying that it is the chief duty in religious morality to stand for the rights of the helpless.
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Prince's manager once told me that I was the only person other than Prince who can recruit from the streets. Which was very flattering.
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A person could look at me through ninety-five per cent of my experience and know that I had no shot. Because I was so unreliable. The only thing you could rely on me for was to betray you.
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Even if you wanted to be a hermit, people come out looking for you. I don't want to cloister myself away, but it is important for me to write about issues that have universal significance. One of them that have resonated with me all my life has been the theme of injustice.
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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
