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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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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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 think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
