Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Quotes to Explore
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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The big businesses are less willing to take risks. I talked to some young people in Hong Kong, and they said they are lost. Young people indeed have fewer opportunities than before. But is it true that there are no more opportunities for them? No!
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I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.
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I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
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Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour sessions. So there is this real appetite out there for lengthy, pretty intricate drama. All that is great news for writers.
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Socrates gave a lifetime to the outpouring of his substance in the shape of the greatest benefits bestowed on all who cared to receive them. In other words, he made those who lived in his society better men and sent them on their way rejoicing.
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The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
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I would love to be a guys' girl, but they always end up falling in love with me, so I'm a girls' girl instead. I've tried having friendly relationships with men, but it ends up being impossible, and I've been around the block too many times not to see it coming.
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Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.
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When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.
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I was in love with a lot of people, because I was a student of the game of comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - who gets no credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I loved them all, and I used to just take a page out of all of them.
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I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
