Emily Dickinson Quotes
Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.
Quotes to Explore
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
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Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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I like the work that I get to do.
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.
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It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.
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Yosemite has the most impressive and accessible granite big walls in the world. The rock is amazing. And because of that, it's been the mecca for climbing in the U.S. - and the world to a large degree - for all of climbing history. It's the place to test yourself against the historic routes of the past.
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It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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To be perfectly honest, if it was up to me, I would be invisible as an artist.
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I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge of it is figuring out what the composer intended... You have music of the 17th century - it's all whole notes and half notes. But inside of that, there are so many things that one can do, at least according to what we know about performance practice.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.
