Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
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If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.
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I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.
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There is no [...] higher than the truth.
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The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.
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I am deeply concerned that Sri Lanka, despite the opportunity provided by the end of the war to construct a new vibrant, all-embracing state, is showing signs of heading in an increasingly authoritarian direction.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
