Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali -
I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
Maira Kalman -
Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
Radha Mitchell -
Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara -
It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
Carla Bley -
I'm curvy.
Camila Alves
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
Walter Lippmann -
I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
Parker Posey -
I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
A. James Clark -
My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say it's a career in fashion. The range is all day-to-day stuff that I'd put on and use myself.
Zara Phillips -
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
Damian Lewis
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
Gary Johnson -
We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
Kapil Dev -
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln -
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
Tecumseh -
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek
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White, adj. and n. Black.
Ambrose Bierce -
An old friend once told me, you don't go fill up your car with gas at night and then park it in the garage.
Gary Player -
If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.
Marc Benioff -
I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.
Sara Blakely -
There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam. The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought. Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time. Allah alone wishes: the Universe exists; and all manifestations are as a witness of the Divine will.
Aga Khan III -
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson