Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
Jack Welch
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
R. W. Apple, Jr.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
Walter Annenberg
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
Dan Marino
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Quintilian
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
Laura Prepon
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
Adam Brody
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
Ed Asner
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
Nat King Cole
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All of us grow.
Foster Friess
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
Irwin Shaw
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
Mallory Ortberg
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylor
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
Maggie Stiefvater
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I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
Karen Black
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I am such a sillybilly that I embarrass myself all the time.
Jodi Balfour
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The challenge is, well, there's a huge challenge, which is when you're improvising, you're meant to sort of clear your mind completely, just be open and funny, and paying, you know, paying attention.
Brian Henson
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Millennials - who will soon be a full one-third of American adults - may be especially ready to become engaged in politics with a candidate who wants to give them a government that will leave them alone and get its finances in order so that they don't inherit an economic collapse.
Gary Johnson
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I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that.
Anastacia
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau