Michael Emerson Quotes
Scripture is vast, and people can pick and choose what they emphasize, and so for hundreds of years verses that said that you are to welcome the stranger, that with Christ there's neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, we've broken down the dividing wall with the original church, where Christians were first called Christian was the church of Antioch in which for the first time you had Jews, Gentiles of all different ethnicities come together as one people. That's when they were called Christians.
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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I've seen it again and again in my consulting: Most teams are too large to be innovative, despite their leaders' best intentions.
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
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A good society is a society which believes that it is not good enough; that it is the task of the collectivity to insure individuals against individually suffered misfortune; and that the quality of society is measured by the quality of life of its weakest, just like the carrying power of a bridge is measured by its weakest pillar.
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It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem whereby an election could be tilted towards a favored candidate.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.
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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
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I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.
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Scripture is vast, and people can pick and choose what they emphasize, and so for hundreds of years verses that said that you are to welcome the stranger, that with Christ there's neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, we've broken down the dividing wall with the original church, where Christians were first called Christian was the church of Antioch in which for the first time you had Jews, Gentiles of all different ethnicities come together as one people. That's when they were called Christians.
