Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.
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But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
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I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.
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I learned from my community how to shoot a gun, how to shoot it well. I learned how to make a damn good biscuit recipe. The trick, by the way, is frozen butter, not warm butter. But I didn't learn how to get ahead.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
