Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
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Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.
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I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
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My main thing is music; it's what I do.
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When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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I haven't even had to learn, but it's just this natural thing to be able to express any emotion I have through the tone of my voice.
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For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
