Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
Zooey Deschanel -
My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
Zoey Deutch -
For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
Federica Mogherini -
Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
T-Pain
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
Vera Farmiga -
We don't want our players getting hurt.
Gary Bettman -
Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
Ira Glass -
Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
Zaha Hadid -
I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
Hale Irwin -
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. Wells
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
Kate Atkinson -
I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don't know why I'm not. I just don't have that need. I feel like I'm one of the only people I know who doesn't do it.
Hannah Ware -
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
Dakota Fanning -
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
Francesco Guicciardini -
Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
Fidel Castro -
I was truly honored to work with legendary DJ and producer DJ Premier. I still can't believe I have a track with Premier; it really is one of the best songs I've written in a long time.
Yuna
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If we're going to solve the problems in North Korea, the first thing we're going to have to do is start helping them get basic amenities like electricity, televisions, and DVD players over there. Otherwise, how can they watch 'Garden State'?
Zach Braff -
A tangle of resentments, the sense of revenge, the need to test the humiliated power of my body were burning up any residue of good sense.
Elena Ferrante -
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.
C. S. Lewis -
People find it very, very difficult to believe what I've done. Scientists have seen my work and they can't explain it. Even nano-scientists have seen it and been totally shocked. But if any man on Earth wants to challenge me, I'm ready. Bring it on.
Willard Wigan -
There is nothing wrong with meditating just to meditate, in the same way that you listen to music just for the music. If you go to concerts to 'get culture' or to improve your mind, you will sit there as deaf as a doorpost.
Alan Watts -
But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
Ralph Waldo Emerson