Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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I just think this whole thing about not wearing anything twice, I just don't understand it. I think things should be worn. You should bond with your clothing. It should be yours.
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One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out all its threats simultaneously.
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Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.
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How could man have such utter contempt for man? Because he had reached the point of contempt for God.
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Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
