Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
Quotes to Explore
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
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Hope is not a matter of age.
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Getting straight A's for having lots of tests is not the same as getting A's on the tests. Weighing a malnourished dog every day doesn't make him any better.
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I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take off your clothes, even when to go into a shop to buy something, or you're going to Riccardo Tisci to try on a suit, it's like having protection.
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I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.
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The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
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Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have to lie to him.
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I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were five covers with one of those guys.
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It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.
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Ever since my United Nations work, for instance, they've been saying that I've gone into politics. The United Nations is a nonpolitical body.
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The best teacher is the one who himself has had to struggle to learn.
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The very word 'sorrow' colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.
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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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Writers, artists, and commentators on websites are detained or thrown into jail when they reflect on democracy, opening up, reform and reason. This is the reality of China.
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I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs.
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Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.
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As a dramatist, you have 200 choices at every fork in the road. But the audience will reject it if you make the wrong choice, if they feel you are trying to shape the character in a way that suits you. It rings false immediately. People can sense when you're being cynical or schematic.
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Kierkegaard said that the only way we can be released from the enchantment, the siren song of the myths, is to play the music through backwards. To break the spell of the ego I must recover my personal and political history, I must demythologize the private, family, and public myths that have informed me.
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It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
