Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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'Heartbeats' is a film on people magnifying and subliming reality when they're in love. Hence the overstylized look, the aesthetics, the robes, the dresses, the vintage, hipster-ish look: All of this is voluntary. I'm not a hipster. I'm not!
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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We must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.
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Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.
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It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.
