Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!
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I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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The very wealthy have little need for state-provided education or health care... They have even less reason to support health insurance for everyone or to worry about the low quality of public schools that plagues much of the country.
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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
