William James Quotes
There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.'
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People should listen to my music because it's good.
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I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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We are at war - undeclared and of such a subtle nature that few have noticed - but war nevertheless. It is a cyberwar on many fronts, in which it is difficult to identify who is friend and who is foe. I will predict now, as unintelligible as it may seem, that Anonymous will turn out to be more friend than foe.
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There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
