"There is ever a slight suspicion of the……" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of…
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise,…
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Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from…
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It just seemed fitting to have our own lounge with our own dance review that paid homage to where The…
— Nicole Scherzinger
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The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque…
— Pedro Almodovar
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Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles…
— Azar Nafisi
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Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something…
— Johnny Carson
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The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by…
— I F Stone
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A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.
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Auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market, trading floor, theatre and burlesque... a lot of people are going to be…
— Jerry Saltz
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I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part…
— Carmen Electra
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The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque…
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