Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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You can collect all the plastic bottle caps you want as long as you give me the money so we can get off this death trap, find somewhere else and have tremendous fun screwing that up as well.
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The fans treated me royally.
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The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
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I don't feel famous.
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I appreciated being rich because it allowed me to study in Paris and Geneva.
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To think is to run after insecurity, to be demoralized for grandiose trifles, to immure oneself in abstractions with a martyr's avidity, to hunt up complications the way others pursue collapse or gain. The thinker is by definition keen for torment.
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The other night a mugger took off his mask and made me wear it.
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I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
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Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
