Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The less government we have, the better, - the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
Quotes to Explore
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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My sisters are amazing. My sister is my business partner, my twin. She's an amazing producer, writer. You know, we're just grinding and trying to make my mother proud as well as God.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.
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We moved from place to place, and it was hard to adjust to different schools. But we made it.
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The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the 'compassionate witness.' Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life.
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The less government we have, the better, - the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
