Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

United States! the ages plead, - Present and Past in under-song, - Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

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• Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Present
  • Identity

• I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Song
  • Eyes
  • Better

• There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Song
  • Earth
  • Party

• I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Past
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Future

• Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Friends
  • Career

• One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • American
  • Tradition

• Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Friends
  • Future
  • Past

• My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Song
  • Shoes
  • Fish

• I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Past

• The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Truth

• The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Everyone

• When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • God
  • Song
  • Dream

• I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Job
  • Present

• I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.

  

  Young Thug
  • Song
  • Thought
  • Fast

• When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him. And he's still very present on TV because he's commenting for Formula One.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Present
  • Hero
  • Living

• I hate the past - especially my own past.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Past
  • Hate
  • Own

• Hey Jude, don't make it bad Take a sad song and make it better. Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I have never believed that the historian should seek to perpetuate the misapprehensions of the past, and it is true that we understand Beethoven today better than his contemporaries did, better, above all, than the generation that immediately followed him, including his own most important pupil, Karl Czerny.

  

  Charles Rosen
  • Important
  • True
  • Today

• The music business will be revitalized by musicians, not the labels or Live Nation. When the musicians decide to put music first, instead of money, the public will flock to the fruits and the scene will be healthy again.

  

  Bob Lefsetz
  • Music
  • Money
  • Business

• United States! the ages plead, - Present and Past in under-song, - Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Past
  • Present