Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
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One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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Far too many candidates wear their faith on their sleeve.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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Some of what I am doing when I am researching is looking for things people in my family have done and finding out what those things mean, why they did those things and seeing how I fit into them.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off, so I had to find creative ways of making money.
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Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
