Emily Weiss Quotes
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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I do periodically ride a bus with my kids.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
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I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.
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I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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It's no secret that I've become known for my strong political views.
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My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
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Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.
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I really like the idea of modesty. By the time I got into music, I was already wearing the scarf all the time, and it's really personal to me, my Muslim beliefs, so I decided to keep it and find a way to work around it. I don't see it as a restriction or limitation - I can still be me and get into music and be an entertainer.
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In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.
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A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
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I just banged it a little bit on a helmet. And you know, if you get your throwing motion and momentum going at a helmet it makes it hurt a little more and it freaks everybody out because it's your throwing shoulder, but honestly, it feels great.
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Though I be but prince of Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy.
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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed ... We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in.
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Up to no good may mean up to something interesting!
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We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.
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When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the 80s - that I had Robert Wagners pompadour. I said, What are you talking about? You mean the guy from Hart to Hart?
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I'm a lover and consumer of beauty.
