Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I remember when President Bush, George W. Bush, came into office, he focused on No Child Left Behind, and with - and before very long, suddenly, Republicans were thought of as being as interested and as competent in education as Democrats, and why? Because they were talking about it and doing something about it.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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You have nothing to prove. Be the spiritual you and create like a physical fiend.
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I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or 'incentives' for skill.
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I don't see anything wrong with a neighborhood association wanting to keep their neighborhood a certain way or their apartment complex a certain way. I don't see anything wrong with white kids wanting to go to school with white children, or black kids wanting to go to school with black kids.
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I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.
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The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
