Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.
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The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.
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I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.
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Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
