William James Quotes
The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.
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High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
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I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
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For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.
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I only have 'yes' men around me. Who needs 'no' men?
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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
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I would love to be a guys' girl, but they always end up falling in love with me, so I'm a girls' girl instead. I've tried having friendly relationships with men, but it ends up being impossible, and I've been around the block too many times not to see it coming.
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'When did you become a shivering old woman,' Okonkwo asked himself, 'you, who are known in all the nine villages for your valor in war? How can a man who has killed five men in battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their number? Okonkwo, you have become a woman indeed.'
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I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.
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It's a genuine dilemma for governments, deciding how much information to share in this threat-filled era.
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Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifest
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The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.
