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All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#actor #ahead #am #been #best

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#anger #came #had #i #inside

I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#back #day #directors #fix #fun

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#contrary #essays #his #i #i write

Whatever ought to be, can be. ↗

— James Rouse

#ought #whatever

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#death #image #leads #sadness #silence

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#escape #ever #every #every man #fire

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#beings #enterprise #every #fellow #fellow human beings

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#being a man #forgive #i #make #man

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#ceases #desire #heard #his #knowledge