Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
It is easy to live for others; everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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I've got a condo in Miami, but I don't live in it.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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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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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.
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'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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Growing up in Paterson wasn't the easiest thing.
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Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.
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I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?
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I used to sneak up to the 8th floor and watch Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo rehearsing 'Saturday Night Live' and could only wonder if I would ever have the chance to be funny. It took me five years to go up the two stories, but it is such a sense of fulfillment to be able to show what I can do on national television.
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You can say what you want about me. You can yell at me with a video camera and be TMZ. You can follow me around and take pictures all you want. I don't care.
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The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that? We need protection too.
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It is easy to live for others; everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
