Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Unfettered, creative, and enthusiastic entrepreneurship is one of the hallmarks of American life, and it has allowed us to attract the best and brightest to this country.
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I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.
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Jesus is the movement for social justice, and the movement for social justice is Jesus in the present.
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I'd have sex with a number of the Muppets. I just don't talk about it publicly. It's private. Although a hint is, that there was a character in Elmo in Grouchland who was called 'My Lady' and that's all I'll say.
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The English never abolish anything. They put it in cold storage.
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We got it all destined to fall.
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This writing distinctly about the kite seems to be my destiny, because among the first recollections of my infancy, it seemed to me that, as I was in my cradle, a kite came to me and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me several times with its tail inside my lips.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
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It was virtually impossible to think of a sentence that made a positive use of that dreadful word ‘enough’, let alone one that started raving about ‘nothing’.
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I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.
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There are always things that I'd love to do. As an actor, none of them are specific; all I'm looking for are things that are good quality, that are challenging for me to work on, and even better if I get to work with people that I respect and am excited to work with.
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I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.
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I'd love to do films, but I'd feel bad in my gut if I did anything just for the money. I want to wait for something I'm really passionate about, even if I don't work for a year.
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I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing.
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As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.
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We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.
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Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.
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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
