Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Quotes to Explore
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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Do people ever ask me to say 'Wow?' Never in interviews, but a few times on the street. I don't do it. I try to get away from them as quickly as possible and explain that I'm not a performing seal.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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I don't like the term 'global warming,' because it's misleading. It implies something that's mainly about temperature, that's gradual, and that's uniform across the planet. And in fact, temperature is only one of the things that's changing.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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'I have made my choice, Hori. I will share my life with you for good or evil, until death comes...' With his arms round her, with the sudden new sweetness of his face against hers, she was filled with an exultant richness of living.
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I've met so many remarkable people so far, coming up through stand-up all these years, who just aren't alive anymore. Because they are dead. Some really great people who helped change my life and career, people like Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Johnny Carson.
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I was a little disappointed. They should have played more of those great songs from the first couple of albums.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
