Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
Patrick Swayze -
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Oscar Wilde -
Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
Pankaj Mishra -
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
Abba Eban -
The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
Vaclav Klaus -
I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
Action Bronson
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The way to resumption is to resume.
Salmon Portland Chase -
It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
Flip Wilson -
I don't know anything about music.
Captain Beefheart -
I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.
Wendy O. Williams -
I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.
Malik Bendjelloul -
In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
Vikram Seth
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I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups.
Laisenia Qarase -
We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.
Salvatore J. Cordileone -
I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
Ice T -
The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
Carl Bernstein -
I used to see media on Althea Flynt and she was very wild looking. She had a mohawk and she published Hustler-I thought that was crazy. But when you study her, she was so innocent and frail and sort of birdlike, and sweet. She stayed sweet until she died, but I don't know what happened for her to get into drugs or the things she got into.
Courtney Love -
'I gather you were all too busy killing each other.''That’s a fairly reductive summary of our history, but I don’t suppose it’s too far from the truth.'
Alastair Reynolds
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When we were kids, my favorite thing was coming to upstate New York where my family is from and hanging out with my grandparents' friends pre-Internet and them asking if we had stores or 'Do you have TV in Alaska?'
John Gourley Portugal. The Man -
Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.
Clark Gable -
I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan -
I broke my ankle ten years ago so high heels are not an option unless I'm literally going door to door for a function.
Britt Ekland -
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson