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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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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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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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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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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Science has killed religion. There's no hope for the future with seven billion of us on the planet, and the only thing you can do is to laugh in the face of it all.
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I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.
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Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.
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People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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You want to make a record that stands the test of time and that people enjoy.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
