Michael Emerson Quotes
I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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I'm not upset about my career; I'm just upset about how my name has been portrayed. A lot of guys have played with Bron and had success. There's nothing I can do about it. I've tried to change my image a million times.
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I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.
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The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
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It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
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If he gimme the word then I'm flippin the bird & then I'm spinnin around & I'm grippin the burn
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I will say this, we don't listen to him all the time or we'd be out here in our underwear.
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I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes.
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Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.
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I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I'm the first one to laugh. I'm either to credit or to blame for the '80s.
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The certainty of our salvation rests on the character of God.
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It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.
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I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.
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Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
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To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.
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In patients with histories of incest, the proportion of RA cells that are ready to pounce is larger than normal. This makes the immune system oversensitive to threat, so that it is prone to mount a defense when none is needed, even when this means attacking the body’s own cells. Our study showed that, on a deep level, the bodies of incest victims have trouble distinguishing between danger and safety. This means that the imprint of past trauma does not consist only of distorted perceptions of information coming from the outside; the organism itself also has a problem knowing how to feel safe.
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Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.
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I wanted to be part of changing the world. I don't want to just stand by and watch it be however it is.
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The true battlefield is within.
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I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.
