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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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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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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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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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 am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continued effort increase.
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The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.
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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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I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.
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It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
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I regard remaking a film as creating something again.
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What exactly are the ingredients of Ranch dressing? Mayo and disappointment?
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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.
