Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.
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Here's the grey rule: embrace things that lead you closer to Jesus, and reject things that lead you away from Jesus.
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I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festivals and wear fancy clothes and try and look glamorous and intelligent when you're just terrified and you want to go home!
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A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.
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I'm having the time of my life and I'm glad people are enjoy it.
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
