Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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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.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
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It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'
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We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
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Whether it's boxing, basketball, or badminton, one must be ready to succeed before entering the arena...long before the lights come up.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
