William James Quotes
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
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I'm the biggest Blackhawks fan ever. I've been going to games since I was 6 years old.
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The atmosphere is blue by reason of the darkness above it because black and white make blue.
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We're past the self-doubt. We just have fun with it and just try to make the best music that we can make.
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'It's true,' Carl said, 'with a kind of merde-y inner truth which shines forth as the objective correlative of what actually did happen, back home.'
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There are a few directors as a young person where I was kind of like, 'Well, these are a sure bet.' The Coens, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson.
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
