Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.
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What did we want out of Iraq? We wanted a country that was stable and secure, that elected its own government, that was not going to be a threat to its neighbors and also was capable of protecting and defending itself. That was our objective in Iraq.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
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Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
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My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
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These inflation effects should fade even if energy prices remain elevated, so long as monetary policy keeps inflation expectations well-anchored.
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Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
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A day out from the bay of Saardos, Drokler honored the brass Rorn god in the prow with a pound of incense.The blank god mask stared back at them through the pall of sweet blue smoke....It gazed in myopic stillness out over the long shock of the waves, ignoring their words, their presence, their costly offering.
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When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending I was in bands from a very young age. But the first song that was really personal to me was 'Blue Suede Shoes'.
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To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.
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O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire.
