Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
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I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
