Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.
Rafe Spall -
No decent career was ever founded on a public.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
Ibrahim Babangida -
The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
Frances O'Grady -
The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
Gabriela Sabatini -
I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
Wendell Berry
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
Calvin Johnson -
Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That Girl?' Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it's Park Avenue! And that's what I can see out my window.
Kate Spade -
The great challenge before the IITs is to act as a catalyst in the growth of quality technical education in the country.
Kapil Sibal -
I think it was Osama bin Laden’s idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq.
Karl Rove -
The only thing lawful is non-violence. Violence can never be lawful in the sense meant here, i.e., not according to man-made laws, but according to the laws made by Nature for man.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It was as if the whole western mind-training of individual differences had been made background instead of figure, so that you'd look at another human being and say, 'Here we are.' You'd see differences more as clothing, rather than as core stuff.
Ram Dass
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Parade magazine announces that 40 million Soviet men were killed between 1914 and 1945. The magazine’s headline reads ‘Short End of the Stick’. Because men died? No. The women were seen as getting the short end of the stick because they were stuck with factory and street-cleaner positions the men weren’t around to do.
Warren Farrell -
God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Georg Cantor claimed the essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. But mathematicians do not pick problems from thin air for the pleasure of solving them. To the contrary, a mark of greatness resides in the ability to identify the most interesting problems in the framework of what is already known.
Benoit Mandelbrot -
For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.
Lorene Scafaria -
Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.
Brian P. Cleary -
I'm particular about the projects that I've chosen. Each one of them, I've taken a step up, like climbing a ladder. Before, it was baby-steps, up to 'Riddick.' Then I took this huge leap onto 'Guardians!' It was such a higher level, this huge project which originally I never thought I'd have a chance in hell of getting.
David Bautista
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I don't want to speak about why I left Chelsea. I will keep that to myself.
Nemanja Matic -
I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.
Chadwick Boseman -
Europe is a collection of free countries.
Douglas Feith -
The government can now delve into personal and private records of individuals even if they cannot be directly connected to a terrorist or foreign government. Bank records, e-mails, library records, even the track of discount cards at grocery stores can be obtained on individuals without establishing any connection to a terrorist before a judge. According to the Los Angeles Times, Al Qaeda uses sophisticated encryption devices freely available on the Internet that cannot be cracked. So the terrorists are safe from cyber-snooping, but we're not.
Molly Ivins -
Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays.
Ralph Waldo Emerson