Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
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It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.
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People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift.
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Palmares Tres is a society born out of a distinct, idiosyncratic utopian vision formed in the midst of an apocalypse. I would say the residents of Palmares Tres respect the strength of that history and their remarkable ability to rise from the ashes of the old world.
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It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.
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People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.
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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
