William James Quotes
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
Quotes to Explore
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
Xavier Becerra
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
Vernon Wells
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
Irving Berlin
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
Rachael Leigh Cook
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
Madison Marlow
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
Fabrice Grinda
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
Samira Wiley
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
Cab Calloway
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
Vincent Canby
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
Adam DeVine
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
Adam Mansbach