Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

Topics

FriendshipOld FriendsStupidFriends

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

Joe Perry

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If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.

Andrew Shue

LeaderTeenPeopleCoolThinkYou

Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.

Andrew Bird

MusicMeImportantAlwaysSocial

I just think about cutting my hair when it's too hot or when I have to go somewhere that I have to wash it and style it. That's when I think about cutting it.

Anderson Varejao

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Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

OpportunityScienceGreatMathematics

People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives, into their physical houses and sort of live with portions of them. But they're not really deeply engaging with them.

Joyce Carol Oates

HomeLiveGreatPeopleTryBring

My biggest worry is that Obama says he's going to tax the upper 5 percent by raising their taxes by 20 percent. But among that 5 percent are the corporations that are hiring middle-class Americans.

Chuck Norris

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A lot of people think that black makes rooms feel smaller, but it's the opposite.

Bobby Berk

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We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners,' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime - unless, that is, the love of one's people and country is a crime.

Bobby Sands

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I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

Anne Parillaud

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Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

StupidSinBeyondSeeTooItself

But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

Penn Jillette

RelationshipBeautifulThinkDieYou

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