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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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.
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You should give no indication that we wish the three-way division of Bosnia.
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In the end, Obama won, stealing the change message from John Edwards and beating back Hillary Clinton's focus on experience. And the race turned on a remarkable speech Obama gave on the night of Nov. 10, 2007, in Des Moines.
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To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - Thomas More burning of heretics. It was well documented. And he was proud of it! The Brits love lost causes.
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Almost all people descend to meet.
