Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear.
Quotes to Explore
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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As a parent, I can get so frustrated. Any parent can!
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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
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I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.
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Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
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I love the opportunity to do lots of different kinds of projects - independent films and big studio epics as well.
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When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear.
