William James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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These years after my liberation were years of reconstruction, and I think I made the right decisions... I mean, I lost everything: my life; my father died; I didn't know anything about my children.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
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I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
Garry Kasparov
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
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I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.
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What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.
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I was so unhealthy. I used to go to 'Cold Stone Creamery,' get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.
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'Roxbury Drive' was the street I grew up on as a little kid, and it was the street that I first listened to records on, and where I actually really first fell in love with music.
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I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.
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I will not support any game that doesn't express what I think is worthwhile.
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I insist, that if there is any thing which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity, of their own liberties, and institutions.
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
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Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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I think Justin Bieber and Zayn have both been listening to me a lot, and they basically wanna be me.
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Because these credit agencies operate in the dark, they are allowed to be terribly unfair and unaccountable.
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Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
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Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvard of Islamic thought. He also had a long history of guiding terrorist groups.
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When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
