Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.
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I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.
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I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.
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Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
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Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.
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The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.
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Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure.
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In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.
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What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? And, without asking, Whither hurried hence! Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!
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It follows at once from the last proposition that the centre of gravity of any triangle is at the intersection of the lines drawn from any two angles to the middle points of the opposite sides respectively.
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I look in your eyes I realize what you've sold meis love in a vacuum. Love in a vacuum.
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Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies.
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How our government works... it doesn't.
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I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.
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We think if the economy remains weak that we could see mortgage rates trail down and we think that we could see rates below seven percent into early next year.
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We're privileged as citizens of the United States to live in a society where the press can act in an adversarial role in a number of different ways.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.
