Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Quotes to Explore
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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Retiring from writing is not to retire from life.
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If you want to see the big stuff that God has, you've got to take some risk and trust only in the Gospel.
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I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
