Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life.
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
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I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
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On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.
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Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
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Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator.
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It's hard to generalize about that subject because the women I've worked with have all been so different. But if there's one consistency, it might be that you do have to handle yourself differently on a set. Women can be more emotional - at least they sometimes show it more.
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
