Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Quotes to Explore
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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I have a great office.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.
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I don't mind having people over, but it's weird how much more withdrawn I've become than being social in public places, I guess.
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Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.
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I am a feminist. Women are discriminated against in so many ways, and they make up half the population.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
