Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, - now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned.
Quotes to Explore
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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People - and dogs - are dying to be trained.
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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
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I'm a model, but I love to eat.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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The series of photographic operations, developing, washing, final drying, takes about quarter of an hour.
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I don't read books.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.
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'...there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true...'
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You have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ... or you think he's a liar. And I'm surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama, and their argument is essentially, 'He's lying about being religious 'cause you have to do that to get elected.' It's a horrible reason to like somebody.
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It's a passing of a great American tradition. It is sad. I really and truly feel that. It will leave a vast window, to use a Washington word, where people will not get Major League Baseball and I think that's a tragedy.
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The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora. He fought crime like they did in Marvel and DC, but he did it in the real world. I had just turned 12 when I met the Spirit and it was a strange coincidence. At the same time I discovered girls I fell out of love with guys in tights.
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When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.
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There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, - now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned.
