Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes to Explore
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
Bailee Madison -
I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
Hallie Ephron -
I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
Edan Lepucki -
We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
Dan Marino -
In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
Faye Dunaway
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
Gavin DeGraw -
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
Rainbow Rowell -
I think I'm a bit odd.
Tamsin Greig -
When you fall in love, you become weak.
Zola Jesus -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
Gabriel Luna
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
Rachel Bilson -
We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
Karin Slaughter -
So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
Callie Thorne -
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
Walter Bagehot -
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Barbara Walters -
I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
Randy Schekman
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When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.
Gautama Buddha -
How can you franchise hospitality?
Danny Meyer -
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
Garry Trudeau -
Everything looked utterly normal, exactly as Thalia had expected save for the absence of a rampaging mob.
Alastair Reynolds -
I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.
Ray Bradbury -
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson