Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

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• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  

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• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

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• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

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• I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.

  

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• It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

  

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• Vegetarians in general don't like me.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

  

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• I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

  

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• I don't eat any red meat.

  

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  • Red
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  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
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• I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

  

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• Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.

  

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• The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

  

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• I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

  

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• Man's power is first of all the result of hardening his heart against God: man affirms that he is strong, conquers the world, and builds cities.

  

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• I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

  

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• God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Ideas
  • U.S.