Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.
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I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful.
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I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.
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Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
