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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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.
Garry Kasparov
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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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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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In writing non-fiction about people who are living, you are always walking a fine line, carrying a burden to be fair that, in my opinion, should always be there.
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I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.
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There was a time in my life when I wasn't sure I'd ever write a short story again because I had started writing novels, and I am fundamentally a lazy person, and the fact is that a novel is a lazy person's form, really. That is, you can amble; you can digress.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
