Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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There is always pressure in football.
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First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
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And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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There's enough money for everybody. See, I can't do what Yachty does. But then again, Yachty can't do what I do.
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The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
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I think the Birmingham accent has a lot to do with that, it certainly doesn't help you when you're trying to put a point across. We also set ourselves up for it sometimes by getting drunk and doing stupid things, but I thought that was what rock 'n' roll was all about.
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The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.
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No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions equally elusive: the individual, the mind, the society
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
