Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.
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For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
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Conservatives are very upset at the idea of a single-mom family. But they do their best to create a lot of them by sending American men off to war to be killed.
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The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
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Michel Platini has no bottle. He is not a great player.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
