Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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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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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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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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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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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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In the past, the greatest weapon the white man has had has been his ability to divide and conquer. If I take my hand and slap you, you don't even feel it. It might sting you because these digits are separated. But all I have to do to put you back in your place is bring those digits together.
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I'm sure I went through a stage when I resented being Indian because in every other manner, in terms of cultural reference points and vocabulary and all the rest of it, I was way ahead of everybody else - so the one thing that set me back was being Indian. And I couldn't do anything about it.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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The dollar is still the driving force as all the evidence points to a faster recovery in the United States than anywhere else.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
