Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound!
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.
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In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.
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We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.
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I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.
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You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.
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I think music is another language.
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To-day unbind the captive, So only are ye unbound; Lift up a people from the dust, Trump of their rescue, sound!
