Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.
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Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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Growing up in Chicago, I was a theater nerd. That might be very cool on the East Coast, but in Chicago, it's really the athletes that come in No. 1 on the cool scale. Maybe musicians after that. Community theater? That's way down the list, my friend.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
