Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.
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One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.
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There's a really positive side of being an introvert - you really pick up on things a lot more than your extroverted counterparts.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
