Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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Imagination rules the world.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
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I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.
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I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
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The stuff I did in 'Rescue Me' was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the first one to take a chance with me. And from that experience, we had a comedy pilot that we did that I was going to play the lead in. And then 'Person of Interest' came along. They're all new experiences.
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When I bought companies, it was done on trust, on a one-on-one basis, and with the intention of taking care of employees. Today, it's about who can bid the highest. There's no personal interest. It's a different world and one that an entrepreneur like me doesn't like much.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
