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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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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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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I've been home-schooled since I was in the fifth grade, mainly because I had two brothers who were acting. We were from Kansas but moved out to Los Angeles.
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Putting good energy into your body and raising your serotonin will lead to a positive mood, exuding a more attractive glow.
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The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
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Almost everyone stops being an artist. Most artists don't become artists. But that's another discussion. What it takes to be an artist.
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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for.
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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.
