Josiah Royce Quotes
Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.
Quotes to Explore
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
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I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects.
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I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
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I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.
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I interpret contemporary human social behavior to comprise hypertrophic outgrowths of the simpler features of human nature joined together into an irregular mosaic.
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Though there were over 200 policemen standing around, none of them made a move to grab him.
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I don't walk around saying everything is going to be wonderful.
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Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.
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A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
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There have been major disagreements within the European Union.
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If I realize that actually there's quantum mechanics happening around us all the time in some macroscopic, interconnected way, then that doesn't change my perception of it, that doesn't change my interaction with it; it just changes how I view my interaction.
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There's nothing greater than a girl.... Well a kid, your daughter, but that's a girl too.
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.
