Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
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I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I think mothers are so important. I mean, it seems like such an obvious thing to say, but I think we don't really express that enough, apart from one day a year. So I think we need to come together and celebrate us every day.
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And you wouldn't believe what a small world it is because everyone seems to know that I was a Playmate. You wouldn't be scared of me, would you?
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Each episode follows an unbelievably spoiled rich and tiny sod as they prepare to throw a despicably opulent coming of age party for themselves and their squealing shitcake friends.
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It was the '50s, and the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal System were in fashion. I hung out in the 812 section - American theater and plays. This is where I first read Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' and was transfixed. I remember staring into space for what seemed an eternity after reading Linda Loman's final speech.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
