Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

  

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• The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.

  

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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.

  

  Ira Sachs
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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.

  

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

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I don't eat any red meat.

  

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• I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
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• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
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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.

  

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

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
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• Having a belief in God, being able to find joy, despite your circumstances or put yourself outside of yourself, and stop looking inwards and look outwards a little bit really helps to carry through tough times. Giving makes you feel better.

  

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• If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
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• That's the great thing about women is they are multitaskers, and they can do it all.

  

  Jessie James Decker
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• Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

  

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• God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

  

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