Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

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• When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Taken

• I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Myself

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Theatre
  • Wonderful
  • Directors

• When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Team
  • Play
  • Church

• When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Society
  • Sick
  • Liberty

• So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • American
  • Day
  • Goal

• I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • College

• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Today

• The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Mean
  • Achievement
  • Canada

• I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• Every economic opinion is associated with a set of assumptions.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Opinion
  • Assumptions

• Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

  

  Walter Kirn
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  • You
  • Realize

• My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

  

  Okky Madasari
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  • May
  • Society

• My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Success
  • Action

• Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Light
  • Day

• All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.

  

  Sia LSD
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• I have a lot of reactions to the outside world that I don't feel like would be appropriate for songs: things I'm not interested in writing about, things I don't want to think about any longer than 15 or 20 seconds.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • World
  • Writing

• I know how big business works. I don't trust it.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Business
  • Trust
  • I Know

• The denigration of business hurts America, because the secret sauce for our economy is confidence. I don't want to hear that nonsense that all business is bad.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Business
  • America
  • Bad

• There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

  

  James Henry Breasted
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• We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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