Michael Emerson Quotes

We've had people say, "Now when I go to work, I don't feel uncomfortable talking to people of different races, and I go up and introduce myself, and I start making a new friend I wouldn't have done otherwise."

Michael Emerson

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• I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.

  

  Natalie Zea
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• I think violence can never be justified.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
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• In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

  

  Cameron Crowe
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• To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.

  

  Otto Penzler
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• Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
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• Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

  

  Lamar Alexander
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• When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.

  

  Malcolm X
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• England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Power
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  • True

• I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.

  

  Ira Sachs
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• Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

  

  Hallie Ephron
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• I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
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• I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
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• Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
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• You can talk good ideas out of existence.

  

  Vikram Seth
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  • Existence

• The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
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• I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Hate
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• Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Death
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• I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was writing a story, and it took me years. And when I finished, a friend of mine had the idea that the story should be read as a monologue in a theater.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg
  • Writing
  • Friend

• Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Experience
  • Day
  • New

• I want to see thirst In the syllables, Tough fire In the sound; Feel through the dark For the scream.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Dark
  • Fire
  • Sound

• We've had people say, "Now when I go to work, I don't feel uncomfortable talking to people of different races, and I go up and introduce myself, and I start making a new friend I wouldn't have done otherwise."

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Work
  • Friend
  • Introduce