William James Quotes
When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.
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I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
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The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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The alumni of Second City from John Belushi to Martin Short have changed my entire life and brought a new kind of comedy to America and the World.
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I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.
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It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.
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When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.
