Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.
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It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.
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The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty. I really mean that. You have to be patient, you have to be open, and you also have to be available for criticism, too.
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As we mature and grow older we collect a lot of baggage, and a lot of that stuff you collect on life's journey gets in the way of acting. My kids can imagine a character and transform in the blink of an eye. It's so simple for kids, so complex for adults.
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A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don't want to look at life like that. It's bad enough that I have to think it. What works for me is writing against that view. There is God, there is love, there is greatness, there is a plan, and there is beauty.
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To get people to pay for something that you built, it has to be of service. It has to make somebody's life better.
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We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
