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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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.
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It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.
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Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.
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Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.
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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.
