Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
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One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.
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If Poverty be a Title to Poetry, I am sure nobody can dispute mine. I own myself of the Company of Beggars; and I make one at their Weekly Festivals at St. Giles's. I have a small Yearly Salary for my Catches, and am welcome to a Dinner there whenever I please, which is more than most Poets can say.
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When you've played a long rally and you lost it, it does hurt.
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Nobody sees the same movie. I'm sure there are people who saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and thought 'Finally a gay movie about men who really care about each other. Thank God!' That's not what I saw necessarily - but I don't think any two people see the same movie.
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Fear not, then, thou child infirm, There's no god dare wrong a worm.
