Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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I have a magical work in a magical way. I give magical service for magical pay.
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Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together, but no one speaks the same language, so you need some translators.
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I was a member of the Nationalist Party for several years. I don't remember how long. Those were very dreary days, because the Nationalist Party... it's hard to describe what it was. I suppose it held on to some kind of little faith, you know? It wasn't even sure what the faith was, and it was a very despised enterprise by everybody.
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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
