Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
