Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I love cooking and baking.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
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The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
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From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.
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I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
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A painter may know what he does not want.
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How many great problems have gone unsolved because men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?
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You are your own devil, you are your own God, You fashioned the paths that your footsteps have trod, And no one can save you from error or sin, Until you shall hark to the Spirit within.
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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
