Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Quotes to Explore
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.
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The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends to become universal and enduring because it comes out of something very particular.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.
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Pyrrhus said, 'If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone.'
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
