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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Moment Quality Events Days Number

In the days when I used to tweet, I would encounter comments wishing death upon me. There were people who claimed they were sticking pins in my effigy because they couldn't stand me. There's some seriously disturbed people out there.

Andie MacDowell

Death People Me Stand Seriously Out

Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

Quality I Can Now Will Become Next

War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.

Michael Badnarik

War More Need Needs Fewer

Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.

Death Fight Legal Late Important

To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

Truth Brother Husband You Sometimes

Mental health and sobriety is not a straight line, and 'Drag Race' is a family, and we support our family members through anything.

Family Health Support Mental Health

When I was in my teens and into my early 20s, I had acne. I used to get those big purple jobs, but not a lot of them, thank goodness, because you really couldn't see them in the films that I did.

You Early Goodness Purple See Big

I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone with her, a dreadful man. He was writing a book about her, and he said to her, 'You're so cold when you perform,' and she said, 'You didn't listen to the voice.' She said the difficulty was to place the voice with the face.

Man Dinner Writing Book Cold Face

When the market is just going up, up, and up, we all tend to be blind to the holes in the market. They're all papered over by the rise.

Blind Rise Over Up Going Market

I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.

Write Show Autobiographical Stand-Up

Companies lose some of their best employees when people are beaten down; then they overpromote junior people because they can't persuade outsiders to sign on.

Best People Employees Lose Down

Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Kindness Friends Doors Relationships

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