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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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
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I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how beautiful music is. It is where you can create everything, like beautiful songs to sad songs to almost anything.
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When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.
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And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
