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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: french
Birth: June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778

Topics

Knowledge Children Man Evil Modesty

I famously tasted shark fin soup many, many years ago before we understood exactly what was going on with the harvesting of sharks. I've consequently come out against it. I make personal choices in my life and stand behind them.

Life Soup Choices Stand My Life Out

In tribal Botswana, I received some woven necklaces and a handmade bow with three poison arrows. It's framed and hanging on the wall in my living room and is, without a doubt, one of my favorite possessions.

Doubt Wall Three Living Room Poison

I had Cooper in December and was back on the red carpet in January. I picked him up and took him to work with me, you know, took him to my dressing room. So he's been raised the same way I was, which is that work is such a big part of our lives.

Work January Red Me You Back

When I step back and look at all of these really successful people that I've worked with, one thing I do take away from it is how hard they work and how focused they are.

Work Step People Look Back Focused

The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.

Simon Mainwaring

Success Accountability Brand Keys

One of the first guys I ever played golf with was Samuel L. Jackson. We did a movie many years ago and would play whenever we could.

Golf Play First Years Would Movie

The truth is that we're not remaking Sam Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs,' we're making 'Straw Dogs.' We're taking this story, and we're putting our own spin on it. The mere fact that I have James Marsden in it is an indication that it's a very different film than the one that had Dustin Hoffman in it.

Truth Truth Is Story Dogs Own Spin

My dream is to be a farmer myself, but also to provide opportunities to others who don't have the land or the resources, in order to grow food themselves and teach them how to do it.

Myself Food Opportunities Grow Dream

In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.

Michael Shnayerson

Children World You Place Hand Taxes

President Barack Obama was amazing. You know how you imagine it would be to meet a celebrity, and that person may actually have a halo around them or something? Well, he did! He was tall, and he had a halo!

Amazing You Person Know Meet Tall

I don't want to get married - I've been there and done that. So I know what I'm talking about when I say that. And for everybody has a different path - find out your path! And if you want to do it, don't let people make you feel inadequate because you wanted to do something that's different.

Path People Feel Talking You Find

When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you.

School Learn Guilt You Kid Being

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