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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I grew up making music in my mum's basement, and I used to tell her I was going down there to work, and she'd say, 'That's not work. Go get a real job!' It took me signing a record deal to change her opinion!
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I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.
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men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
