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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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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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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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don't like to be deflected by acrobatics.
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I am confounded by the failure of this rule to meet either the spirit or letter of the law, ... It is clearly delinquent in protecting all Americans equally from the hazards of mercury.
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I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.
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Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
