Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Quotes to Explore
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I work out every day - and my daily routine is a mix of functional and strength training.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.
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The Grateful Dead played for three hours on a given night, plus sound check.
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Fresh out of grad school, I arrived for my first day of work at Deloitte ready for the long haul. For my generation, that's what those early years were about - laying the foundation for a lifelong career with a great organization. More than 30 years later, I'm still with Deloitte, and I have no regrets.
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I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.
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You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
