William James Quotes
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news.
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.
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I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
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It is inexcusable that the richest country in the world does not take care of all of its people. We don't consider ourselves idealistic; we're thoughtfully trying to make a beautiful health care model.
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What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
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Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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You have good days and bad days.
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Maybe in the future, you'll be able to understand what I'm saying. I'm going more for an atmospheric vibe in my songs. And I really don't want to ruin the illusions people may create for themselves.
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It had, perhaps, not been a very edifying life. On the booze in England, in India, in Malaya… And then a couple of gins for breakfast and then the first beers of the day in a kedai … He had been driven out of that Eden…because of his sinful desire to taste what was forbidden.
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
