Emily Susan Rapp Quotes
People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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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.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
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You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.
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All of us are going to have to find ways to do things more efficiently, find ways to get our costs more in line, and do it in a time of higher regulatory and environmental standards.
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Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.
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I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
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I was very proud to be at 'The Wall Street Journal'. I have nothing bad to say about it. I had a great run there. In what turned out to be the final years of my tenure there, 'AllThingsD' occupied me more and more and was much more fun.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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A constructive work is an embodiment of freedom itself, and is unconsciously perceived, even by those who are consciously against it. The desire to live is the strongest universal emotion, it springs from the depths of our unconscious sensibility – and the desire to give life is our most potent, constructive, conscious expression of this intuition.
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I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?
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There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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I'm not going to change; I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.
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Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.
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You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
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Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
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That's always fun to play: the person who can be truthful and blunt, and people take it because that's who she is.
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People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.
