Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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• I'm as radical as libertarians come.

  

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• As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.

  

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• Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

  

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• The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.

  

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• One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

  

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• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

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• You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

  

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• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

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• Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

  

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• The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  

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• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

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• She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

  

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• I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.

  

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• I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.

  

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• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  

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• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

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• It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.

  

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• We could try freedom for a while. We had it for a long time. That's where you sell something, and I agree to buy it because I like it. That is how we operate in most of rest of the marketplace other than health care.

  

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• The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

  

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• How futile are words in the ears of those who mourn.

  

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• I started writing 'Southern Baptist Sissies' right after I had written the screenplay for 'Sordid Lives', so that's when I started on a darker path in telling the truth about my journey in the church, but there was still a lot of funny.

  

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• The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised.

  

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• General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Eye