Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
Vicki Lawrence -
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
O. J. Simpson -
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln -
What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
J. August Richards -
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
Ozwald Boateng -
Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
Wale -
In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.
Kapil Sibal -
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
Fiona Apple -
Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
Adam Green -
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The 100m is never stressful.
Usain Bolt -
I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.
Zev Yaroslavsky -
The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
R. Lee Ermey -
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
Larry Kramer -
Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
Barton Gellman -
I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.
Piper Perabo
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What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.
David Ogilvy -
When you go into extra time, we're talking about drama. But when we reach the penalty shootout, it's a tragedy.
Sepp Blatter -
Every day, I pinch myself. It has been an incredible journey.
Karen Katz -
The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.
James Wolfensohn -
At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them eat cake".
Jean-Jacques Rousseau