Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I often get painted as the guy who's trying to tell other people what to make and what to like, and that's really not my goal, but I believe so passionately that games can be more than a lot of people think they can.
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I hadn't watched any Hitchcock movies when I made 'Tom at the Farm,' except for 'Vertigo' when I was 8 years old. I don't have a sophisticated film knowledge, but I have seen the legacy of classic movies in broader entertainment.
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
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I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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I don't even know what my favourite food is anymore, as they are all such bad foods!
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.
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I always thought everybody else was better than me.
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As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
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First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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There are no easy solutions for Israel's own governance problems.
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I want to share my experience with you because maybe there's something I did, that you do, that we shouldn't do.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.
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But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
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Revolutions go not backward.
