Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.
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John Goodman is like the Jackie Chan of acting. Any prop that you put in front of him, he's going to take advantage of it in some peculiar way.
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Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
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The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.
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Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
