Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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It's hard to tell what an entire series is going to be based on the first few episodes, or even on the first season. And it's sad because you see great casts and good ideas that don't get that opportunity to grow and show what it could turn into.
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Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
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The decision about digital or film is going to be made for us. I think the answer is that film is gonna be gone, although I think it'll make a comeback; it'll be like vinyl records or something.
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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
