Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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I feel a bit like a magpie attracted to shiny things.
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I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night.
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A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
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In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
