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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The V&A is an amazing museum, and the collections have always been a great inspiration to me.
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I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.
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I'm guilty of going to a fitting, then going out to buy the same outfit. It's been a problem for my bank account!
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What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.
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The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
