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".
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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.
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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.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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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.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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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.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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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.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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Theater was definitely part of my roots. My father would take me to plays, and then my mother was always on the lookout for other talent and taking me to see plays. I saw Frank Langella in 'Dracula'... Great, great performances. I was a theater rat, hanging out backstage.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.
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There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.
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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".
