Michael Emerson Quotes
In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
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Base thy life on principle, not on rules.
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Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.
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Prayer is an effort of will.
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The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.
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THE HEART'S DEAD ARE NEVER BURIED.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.
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Habit is formed out of memory... We often shape our present situation according to those habitual memories. Instead of starting fresh, we go back to what we've done in the past... easier for us than fighting our way through foreign territory.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.
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They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty for romancing is imparted by a seafaring life as readily and surely as a rolling gait and a weather-beaten countenance. A fine imagination is one of the gifts of the ocean-witness the surprising and unlimited power of expression and epithet possessed by the sailor. And a fine imagination will frequently manifest itself in other ways besides swear words.
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Warning: we may become so enamored with God's good gifts that we fail to worship the Giver.
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In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."
