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 strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
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The first job I got was a production of 'Fame - the Musical,' at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts, and it got me my Equity card, too. I waited 12 hours to be seen for it, though!
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The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana makes no sense.
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A lot of what you do is about how you look. You're a good-looking guy who plays music, and you can't do anything about what happens because of that. If people say, "He's cute. I'm going to go buy his album," hopefully they'll like the music, too.
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In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I'm learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there's so much good that comes out of it.
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
