Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.
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My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday Night Lights,' I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most writers, that's a privilege to be telling those kinds of stories. It's erroneous to me.
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I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works.
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The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.
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Passion in Ireland is denounced as evil and obscene. Women are the snares set for us by the Devil.
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The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.
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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.
