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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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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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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I seen a lot of changes. You got to make changes. I even make changes in my blues.
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I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.
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I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.
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The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.
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Life is not the unique property of Earth. Nor is life in the shape of human beings. Life takes many forms on other planets and far stars, forms that would seem bizarre to humans, as human life is bizarre to other life-forms.
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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.
