Emma Restall Orr Quotes
The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.
Quotes to Explore
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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You never know what the future brings.
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The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.
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The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.
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The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
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I want to graduate high school, so it's very important to me, and I'll be focusing hard on that as well.
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I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.
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I have never met a dog I couldn't help; however, I have met humans who weren't willing to change.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.
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The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.
