Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
Quotes to Explore
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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I am someone who isn't always perfect.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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My process is very disempowering to the director anyway, so it's essential that you be respectful. Once we've sort of found the scene, I have to get out of there, because you don't want to split the actor's idea of who's in charge.
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Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.
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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
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My mother was a very wise and strong person.
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A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
