Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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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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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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I'm evangelical.
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My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.
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The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)
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In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.
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A deal of the world's sound happiness is lost through Shyness.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
