Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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All of us grow.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.
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No foreign policy will stick unless the American people are behind it. And unless Congress understands it. And unless Congress understands it, the American people aren't going to understand it.
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Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.
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The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
