Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Feeling better is not actually being better.
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I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
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The very good never believe themselves very good, because they are judging themselves by the Ideal.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
