Emily Dickinson Quotes

I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me

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• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

  

  Damian Lewis
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• In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
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• I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

  

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• Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
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• Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Feel
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• If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
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• Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • American
  • Nature

• ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Actions
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• The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Want
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• The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • World
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• My focus is on my constituents.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Focus
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• I climbed nine mountains because I love adventure, and I got addicted to that feeling and I never wanted to stop. I wanted to see what I could accomplish. I finally can say that I stood on top of the world.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • World
  • Feeling
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• We can define the rules of police-citizen engagement, but everyday decisions will always be made by men and women in uniform, on the street, in the community, under extreme pressure, in a dangerous world where guns easily fall into the wrong hands.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • World
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• The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'

  

  Randy Pausch
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• Tell me, when you are alone with him Max Beerbohm Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Alone

• All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Up
  • Ignorance

• All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

  

  Vash Young
  • Life
  • Live
  • Faith

• I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.

  

  Oliver Cowdery

• It kind of sucks when you lose a dog; you don't realize how attached to them you are until they are gone.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Dog

• We've all seen 'Network' and 'Wag the Dog,' but we were somehow insulated by the fact that those were just movies, fictions, and we could rest easy that the Real News doesn't operate that way. Well, it does - sometimes.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • Real
  • Rest
  • Dog

• The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • World
  • Game

• I started early, took my dog, And visited the sea; The mermaids in the basement Came out to look at me

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Dog
  • Sea
  • Basement