Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.
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As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
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Truth is the best defense.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved it, and it gave me a lot of energy to start into my own.
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Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
