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 I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.
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As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
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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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Britain's unique success as an industrialised nation-state prompted strong imitative endeavours not only across Europe, but also in Asia. Now many people, who were once humiliated into a sense of nationality by British rule, loom larger than their former masters.
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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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The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.
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That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.
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The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as a whole, in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things.
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The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.
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That's insanity. We must be good all the time.
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I did not take the name, I just named myself Cassius Clay, this is a honorable, Mohammed Ali, given to me by my religious leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, and I would like to say that Mohammed means in Arabic "one who is worthy of praise" and one praiseworthy, and Ali means the most High, but the slave name Clay meant dirt with no ingredients.
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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."
