Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.
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The feeling of being happy or unhappy rarely depends on our absolute state, but on our perception of the situation, on our capacity to be satisfied with what we have.
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Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!
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I was happy, the sun was high. I had enough.
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People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
