Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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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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The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they 'slam dunk.' That's sexy.
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The more you covet something, the more certain it is that you’ll lose it, and the more devastating the loss will be when it happens-which it will. (p. 216).
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The thin-lipped armorer, Hephaestos, hobbled away, Thetis of the shining breasts Cried out in dismay At what the god had wrought To please her son, the strong Iron-hearted man-slaying Achilles Who would not live long.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
