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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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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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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From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.
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It's very tough for a woman in the music business, and he really was such a motivator from the beginning, when I was super-shy, and he saw a lot in me on a personal level that he knew could carry through on the stage.
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As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
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Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.
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My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't be greedy, work hard for the necessities in life knowing that money does not make you better or more important than anyone else. So, extravagance has been bred out of my DNA.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
