Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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What matters most is the win.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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I love New York. Love it.
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I had two children. I had a nanny to manage my kids.
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A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
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I type most of my books for the first chapter or two - I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so - and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don't end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.
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All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?
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I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.
