Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.
Quotes to Explore
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My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.
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The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
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There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.
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Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
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I was always singing as a kid. That's honestly all I've ever wanted to do.
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On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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The unspoken word never does harm.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.
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If Pocahontas had been given the foresight to see what devastating consequences her actions and belief in the possibility of peace would have brought upon her people, I wonder if she would have avoided befriending the English or not.
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
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I try to stay in decent shape.
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We were all hit with sticker shock: $87 billion is a huge number.
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See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.
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There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.
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I'd always been quite quiet growing up, and singing was a way of having a voice.
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My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got hired by a client. He ended up being CEO of a hospital management company before he retired, called Lifemark.
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My nickname used to be Moses - still is Moses - for a long time, and people just call me Mo for short.
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Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.
