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.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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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.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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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.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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We don't want our players getting hurt.
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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.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We always thought the living earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.
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''Is the hotel Marge? It has to be Marge. I want atmosphere.' Marge is Anna-Louise's word describing sad, 1950s-ish diner-type places where the waitresses are named Marge.'
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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.
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Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.
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In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.
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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
