Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I don't like allegories.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life, and I think most people feel that way.
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I want to challenge people to find out who they are.
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My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.
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If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.
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Almost all people descend to meet.
