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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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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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.
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One had sown the seeds of corruption, and the other watered and nurtured it. Both the TDP and Congress have played their bit in patronising Satyam.
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Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.
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What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
