Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.
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Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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I can't remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn't real smart, but I said, 'I don't like the sound of that.'
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I do think human beings cannot be faulted for wishing to judge themselves and their lives and their achievements by others around them; that is a natural human feeling.
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Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.
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The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
