Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore'.
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If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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In the character of the victim Lincoln, and even in the accessories of his last moments, there is something so homely and innocent that it takes the question, as it were, out of all the pomp of history and the ceremonial of diplomacy-it touches the heart of nations and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind.
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I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does the music conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics, I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It's a small proportion of what I do, but it's always what people seem to focus on.
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I was very young when we got married and I don't know why it worked out like it did or how I was smart enough to know that this was the right guy, but somehow I got lucky.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow, is, - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore'.
