Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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I didn't think of rap with that type of south feel and that look and the hay and all that.
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When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
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On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
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a question i have for whoever runs these sites-where do you get all these pictures from? i can't even tell where i was when i took most of these!
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
