Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.
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I much prefer being told off by Brendan Rodgers than by my wife. Brendan is more careful than my wife with what he says.
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Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.
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I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.
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I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
