Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• I learn something in the interviews from time to time.

  

  Samantha Bee
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• I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

  

  Ice Cube
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• Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

  

  Raha Moharrak
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• Hope is not a matter of age.

  

  Abbe Pierre
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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.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.

  

  Carla Korbes
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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.

  

  Owen D. Young
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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.

  

  Yolanda Adams
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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.'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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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.

  

  Irene Dunne
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• The best teacher is the one who himself has had to struggle to learn.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
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• The very word 'sorrow' colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
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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.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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.

  

  Ai Weiwei
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• George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
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• There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

  

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• Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you.

  

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• I always wanted to be a pilot.

  

  Bo Jackson

• My sweetest Joy is to be in the presence of Jesus in the holy Sacrament. I beg that when obliged to withdraw in body, I may leave my heart before the holy Sacrament. How I would miss Our Lord if He were to be away from me by His presence in the Blessed Sacrament!

  

  Katharine Drexel
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• Increasingly, men are realizing exactly that - that having an educated, economically independent partner reduces the pressure on them to be the sole provider. Many men are also beginning to understand that participating in housework and childcare can be rewarding. Women with higher education and/or earnings are so much less likely than other women to divorce, that by age 40, they are more likely to be married than any other group of women.

  

  Stephanie Coontz
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• I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I don't think Judaism makes any more sense than Christianity, and I don't think Christianity makes any more sense than Scientology. But here's a guy, L. Ron Hubbard, who told all his friends, 'Look, I'm gonna start a religion, 'cause I can't make any money as a science fiction writer.' I mean, he admitted that publicly! At least with Jesus Christ, you can't go talk to the guy.

  

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• It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson