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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• 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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• We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

  

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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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• There are a lot of guys who play in the NBA. There aren't a lot of guys who have a chance to win a gold medal, too.

  

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• All I can say is, the universe is in a good shape, it's earth that has all the problems.

  

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• Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.

  

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• Well when I woke up this morning,There was a note upon my door, Said don't make me no coffee Babe,'Cause I won't be back no more, And that's all she wrote, Dear John, I've sent your saddle home.

  

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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".

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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