Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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Practices were tough.
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We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
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Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of applications, and too many low-quality patents are being issued as a result.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?
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Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
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The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.
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I never grew up seeing women that looked like me in magazines or on TV and didn't feel like I had a place in the world of fashion. I am honoured to be part of that change.
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One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable.
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Until that moment, I hadn't realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley right around the time my country iffily went to war, which is to say right around the time my resentment of the current president cranked up into contempt. Not that I want the current president killed. Like that director, I will, for the record (and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm — hello there), clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.
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The gods sell anything and to everybody at a fair price.
