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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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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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 think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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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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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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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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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.
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People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.
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I think being a guest star on an ongoing TV show can be a nightmare, and I've done it a lot. You're walking into this family who's very comfortable where they are, and you have to jump on the train and be artificially comfortable. That's a very hard thing to do.
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As I get older, I increasingly value free time that's completely free of appointments. Time to think, time to reflect, time to just hang out with my wife and kids.
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We have a lot to learn from bonobos, because they're a very egalitarian society and they're a very empathetic society. Sexual behavior is not confined to one aspect of their life that they set aside. It permeates their entire life.
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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!
