Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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 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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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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I would let climbing slide away if I had to maintain my relationship with my family. Because it really is the big adventure.
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Charlie Day is a delight of a human being.
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A reader's own imagination is a far more powerful form of CGI than anything any movie can provide because it's unique. In your own imagination, you can enter all sorts of worlds, and they are unique to you because no other reader will interpret a book the same way.
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
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I do have at home the most ridiculous number of awards for what I have done, which is nice in terms of being patted on the back, yet it does cure you of caring about what other people say about you. Ultimately, you must have your own standard of what is good enough.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
