Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
Quotes to Explore
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I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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Pave your own path and be fearless.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Illinois needs a single-payer health care system, and as governor, I will take the steps to get us there.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I've carried throughout my life - things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.
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Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.
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You know what? I knew that my God was bigger than his [about Muslims in Somalia]. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.
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I would like to be an FBI profiler. I'm fascinated with psychology, but I wouldn't want to deal with people and their problems in my office. I like to figure them out from afar, narrow a case down, figure it out, but it sounds like a lot of science.
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A dream shouldn't be measured by its size or scope, nor by the age or the experience of the dreamer, but rather by the passion, integrity and commitment of that dreamer to follow his or her heart.
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We have to provide the roads on which our dreams are paved. And these roads can’t have potholes, they can’t break down in six months. They have to be big roads because they are going to carry strong people, they are going to carry strong forces.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
