Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Quotes to Explore
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice; being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
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Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.
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To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.
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Making money isn't the main point of business. Money is a by-product.... A new product has been found, something of use to the world. A new industry moves into an undeveloped area. Factories go up, machines go in and you're in business. It's coincidental that people who've never seen a dime now have a dollar and barefooted kids wear shoes and have their faces washed. What's wrong with an urge that gives people libraries, hospitals, baseball diamonds and movies on a Saturday night?
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
