Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.
Quotes to Explore
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
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In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
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A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.
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I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.
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A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word just as good.
